How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematics in Industry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mathematics in Industry. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Wellman B. Computer networks as social networks. Science. 2001 Sep 14;293(5537):2031–4.
A journal article with 2 authors
Braithwaite J, Spruit HC. A fossil origin for the magnetic field in A stars and white dwarfs. Nature. 2004 Oct 14;431(7010):819–21.
A journal article with 3 authors
Bustamante C, Bryant Z, Smith SB. Ten years of tension: single-molecule DNA mechanics. Nature. 2003 Jan 23;421(6921):423–7.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
Weinreich DM, Delaney NF, Depristo MA, Hartl DL. Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins. Science. 2006 Apr 7;312(5770):111–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Arifin SMN, Madey GR, Collins FH. Spatial Agent-Based Simulation Modeling in Public Health. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.
An edited book
Friesen N, Henriksson C, Saevi T, editors. Hermeneutic Phenomenology in Education: Method and Practice. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012.
A chapter in an edited book
Louberry C, Roose P, Dalmau M. Kalimucho: Contextual Deployment for QoS Management. In: Felber P, Rouvoy R, editors. Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 11th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 6-9, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 43–56.

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 Mathematics in Industry.

Blog post
Andrew D. Here Are The “Smartest” Dog Breeds, According To A Psychologist. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Examination Into Possible Irregularities in the Use of Federal Funds in the Administration of the Chemawa Indian School in Marion County, Oregon]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Nov. Report No.: B-114868.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Momenteller J. Optimization of Germination and Early Growth Conditions for Axenic Stanleya pinnata, a Potential Phytoremediation Candidate for Selenium [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017.

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
Hollander S. MORE 65-M.P.H. ZONES. New York Times. 2001 Aug 26;14NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wellman 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Braithwaite and Spruit 2004; Wellman 2001).

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

  • Two authors: (Braithwaite and Spruit 2004)
  • Three or more authors: (Weinreich et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Mathematics in Industry
AbbreviationJ. Math. Ind.
ISSN (online)2190-5983
ScopeApplied Mathematics

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