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

Barnes, D.K.A.: Biodiversity: invasions by marine life on plastic debris. Nature. 416, 808–809 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Purugganan, M.D., Fuller, D.Q.: The nature of selection during plant domestication. Nature. 457, 843–848 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye, Y., Meyer, H.H., Rapoport, T.A.: The AAA ATPase Cdc48/p97 and its partners transport proteins from the ER into the cytosol. Nature. 414, 652–656 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hove, J.R., Köster, R.W., Forouhar, A.S., Acevedo-Bolton, G., Fraser, S.E., Gharib, M.: Intracardiac fluid forces are an essential epigenetic factor for embryonic cardiogenesis. Nature. 421, 172–177 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lu, J., Zhao, X., Yamada, S.: Harmonic Balance Finite Element Method. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore (2016)

An edited book

Gutwirth, S., Leenes, R., de Hert, P. eds: Reforming European Data Protection Law. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

van Eck, W.H.J.M., Lenssen, J.P.M., van de Steeg, H.M., Blom, C.W.P.M., de Kroon, H.: Seasonal dependent effects of flooding on plant species survival and zonation: a comparative study of 10 terrestrial grassland species. In: Leuven, R.S.E.W., Ragas, A.M.J., Smits, A.J.M., and Velde, G. van der (eds.) Living Rivers: Trends and Challenges in Science and Management. pp. 59–69. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2006)

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.: Titan’s Atmosphere May Have Formed Before Saturn, https://www.iflscience.com/space/titans-atmosphere-may-have-formed-saturn/

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: School Lunch Program: Evaluation of Alternatives to Commodity Donations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1987)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee, M.Y.-L.: The intellectual origins of Lin Yutang’s cultural internationalism, 1928–1938, (2009)

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

Greenhouse, L.: JUSTICES, RULING 5-4, ENDORSE PERSONAL RIGHT TO OWN GUN, (2008)

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