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

Boger, D. L. (2015). ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. When sugar is not so sweet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6258), 275–276.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mathews, J. A., & Tan, H. (2014). Economics: Manufacture renewables to build energy security. Nature, 513(7517), 166–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wen, J., Zhou, S., & Chen, J. (2014). Colorimetric detection of Shewanella oneidensis based on immunomagnetic capture and bacterial intrinsic peroxidase activity. Scientific Reports, 4, 5191.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Martin, R. E., Marchetti, R. V., Cowan, A. I., Howitt, S. M., Bröer, S., & Kirk, K. (2009). Chloroquine transport via the malaria parasite’s chloroquine resistance transporter. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5948), 1680–1682.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rochange, C., Uhrig, S., & Sainrat, P. (2013). Time-Predictable Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Evstigneev, I. V. (2015). Mathematical Financial Economics: A Basic Introduction (T. Hens & K. R. Schenk-Hoppé, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Rivenbark, A. G., & Coleman, W. B. (2009). The Role of Mutation and Epimutation in the Development of Human Disease. In T. C. Allen & P. T. Cagle (Eds.), Basic Concepts of Molecular Pathology (pp. 41–54). Springer US.

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

Andrew, E. (2014, April 16). Time-Lapse Video of Lunar Eclipse. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/time-lapse-video-lunar-eclipse/

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. (2008). Digital Television Transition: Broadcasters’ Transition Status, Low-Power Station Issues, and Information on Consumer Awareness of the DTV Transition (GAO-08-881T). 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

Zamudio, R. (2015). From community college to 4-year institutions: Latinas’ successful completion of STEM baccalaureate degrees [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wilson, M. (2017, October 10). In Chelsea Bombing Trial, a Lesson on How a Cellphone Becomes a Trigger. New York Times, A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Boger, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Boger, 2015; Mathews & Tan, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Mathews & Tan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Martin et al., 2009)

About the journal

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