How to format your references using the International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author
Witze, A. (2015). Meteorology: California study targets rivers in the sky. Nature, 517(7535), 424–425.
A journal article with 2 authors
Heath, R. J., & Rock, C. O. (2000). A triclosan-resistant bacterial enzyme. Nature, 406(6792), 145–146.
A journal article with 3 authors
Blundy, J., Cashman, K., & Humphreys, M. (2006). Magma heating by decompression-driven crystallization beneath andesite volcanoes. Nature, 443(7107), 76–80.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Xiang, Z., Kasahara, Y., Asaba, T., Lawson, B., Tinsman, C., Chen, L., et al. (2018). Quantum oscillations of electrical resistivity in an insulator. Science (New York, N.Y.), 362(6410), 65–69.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book
Dixon, C. S. (2010). Protestants. Oxford, UK: wiley-Blackwell.
An edited book
Demazeux, S., & Singy, P. (Eds.). (2015). The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel (Vol. 10). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
A chapter in an edited book
Haag, R. (2014). Quantum Events and Irreversibility. In S. Albeverio & P. Blanchard (Eds.), Direction of Time (pp. 31–34). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education.

Blog post
Fang, J. (2015, March 31). Garlic, Onions and Cow Stomach: A Medieval Solution for Modern Superbugs. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/garlic-onions-and-cow-stomach-medieval-remedy-todays-superbugs/. Accessed 30 October 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report
Government Accountability Office. (2012). Students with Disabilities: Better Federal Coordination Could Lessen Challenges in the Transition from High School (No. GAO-12-594). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation
Zelaya, G. S. (2012). Hopelessness and diabetes: Do Hispanic diabetic patients feel less hopeless eating fruits, vegetables and exercising regularly? (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article
Latimer, M. (2016, August 8). How to Get Trump to Withdraw. New York Times, p. A23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Witze 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Heath and Rock 2000; Witze 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Heath and Rock 2000)
  • Three or more authors: (Xiang et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal titleInternational Journal of Science and Mathematics Education
AbbreviationInt. J. Sci. Math. Educ.
ISSN (print)1571-0068
ISSN (online)1573-1774
ScopeGeneral Mathematics
Education

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