How to format your references using the Inventiones mathematicae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Inventiones mathematicae. 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:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX 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

Velasquez-Manoff, M.: Gut microbiome: the peacekeepers. Nature. 518, S3-11 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Schadt, C.W., Rosling, A.: FUNGAL BIOGEOGRAPHY. Comment on “Global diversity and geography of soil fungi.” Science. 348, 1438 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson, C.H., Egli, M., Stewart, P.L.: Structural insights into a circadian oscillator. Science. 322, 697–701 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Eiler, J.M., Schiano, P., Kitchen, N., Stolper, E.M.: Oxygen-isotope evidence for recycled crust in the sources of mid-ocean-ridge basalts. Nature. 403, 530–534 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D.M.: World Wide Rave. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009)

An edited book

Xu, H., Wang, X. eds: Optimization and Control Methods in Industrial Engineering and Construction. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Takahashi, K., Suzuki, K., Ogata, T., Tjandra, H., Sugano, S.: Efficient Motor Babbling Using Variance Predictions from a Recurrent Neural Network. In: Arik, S., Huang, T., Lai, W.K., and Liu, Q. (eds.) Neural Information Processing: 22nd International Conference, ICONIP 2015, Istanbul, Turkey, November 9-12, 2015, Proceedings Part III. pp. 26–33. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Inventiones mathematicae.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Travel Through The Solar System At The Speed Of Light

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: Charter Schools: To Enhance Education’s Monitoring and Research, More Charter School-Level Data Are Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williamson, C.L.: Hispanic female undergraduates perception of nursing as a career choice: A phenomenological study, (2012)

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

Walsh, M.W.: House Bill on Puerto Rico Debt Near Completion, (2016)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Inventiones mathematicae
Abbreviation	Invent. Math.
ISSN (print)	0020-9910
ISSN (online)	1432-1297
Scope	General Mathematics