How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematical Behavior citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematical Behavior. 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	Download the output style file
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

Eggleston, A. K. (2009). RNA silencing. Nature, 457(7228), 395.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gerstner, W., & Naud, R. (2009). Neuroscience. How good are neuron models? Science (New York, N.Y.), 326(5951), 379–380.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pevzner, P. A., Kim, S., & Ng, J. (2008). Comment on “Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 321(5892), 1040; author reply 1040.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Thines, B., Katsir, L., Melotto, M., Niu, Y., Mandaokar, A., Liu, G., Nomura, K., He, S. Y., Howe, G. A., & Browse, J. (2007). JAZ repressor proteins are targets of the SCF(COI1) complex during jasmonate signalling. Nature, 448(7154), 661–665.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keedwell, E., & Narayanan, A. (2005). Intelligent Bioinformatics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ryan, M. E. (Ed.). (2015). Teaching Reflective Learning in Higher Education: A Systematic Approach Using Pedagogic Patterns. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Altpeter, F., & Korzun, V. (2007). Rye. In E.-C. Pua & M. R. Davey (Eds.), Transgenic Crops IV (pp. 107–117). Springer.

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 Journal of Mathematical Behavior.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, February 22). A Potential Dark Matter Signature Has Been Seen in The Andromeda Galaxy. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2014). DOD Education Benefits: Action Is Needed to Ensure Evaluations of Postsecondary Schools Are Useful (GAO-14-855). 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

Smith, B. L. (2017). A Qualitative Study of Veteran Students’ Perspectives of Their Academic Experiences [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Barron, J. (2017, July 4). In East Hampton, an Airport Is Viewed as a Roaring, Round-the-Clock Nuisance. New York Times, A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eggleston, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Eggleston, 2009; Gerstner & Naud, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Gerstner & Naud, 2009)
Three authors: (Pevzner et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Thines et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematical Behavior
ISSN (print)	0732-3123
Scope	Applied Mathematics Applied Psychology Education