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

Hallet, B. (2006). Geology. Why do freezing rocks break? Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5802), 1092–1093.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mannhart, J., & Schlom, D. G. (2010). Oxide interfaces--an opportunity for electronics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 327(5973), 1607–1611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Allen, M., Raper, S., & Mitchell, J. (2001). Climate change. Uncertainty in the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5529), 430–433.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bell, T., Ager, D., Song, J.-I., Newman, J. A., Thompson, I. P., Lilley, A. K., & van der Gast, C. J. (2005). Larger islands house more bacterial taxa. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5730), 1884.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gladon, R. J., Graves, W. R., & Kelly, J. M. (2011). Getting Published in the Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Tiwari, P. (2016). Development Paradigms for Urban Housing in BRICS Countries (J. Rao & J. Day, Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, J. S., & Werth, V. P. (2014). Malar Erythema. In M. Matucci-Cerinic, D. Furst, & D. Fiorentino (Eds.), Skin Manifestations in Rheumatic Disease (pp. 37–45). 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

Luntz, S. (2016, November 2). Australia’s Arid Interior Was Occupied Ten Thousand Years Earlier Than Suspected. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/australias-arid-interior-was-occupied-ten-thousand-years-earlier-than-suspected/

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. (1999). Reported Year 2000 (Y2K) Readiness Status of 25 Large School Districts (AIMD-99-296R). 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

McCallum-Bonar, C. (2008). Black Ashkenaz And the Almost Promised Land: Yiddish Literature and the Harlem Renaissance [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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

Alexander, K. (2008, October 5). Fry, Baby. New York Times, MM77.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hallet, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Hallet, 2006; Mannhart & Schlom, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Mannhart & Schlom, 2010)
Three authors: (Allen et al., 2001)
6 or more authors: (Bell et al., 2005)

About the journal

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