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:

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

Powell K. Counting the cost. Nature. 2005 Apr 21;434(7036):1048–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bennett CH, Shor PW. Computers and mathematics. Quantum channel capacities. Science. 2004 Mar 19;303(5665):1784–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Feng Y, Zhang S, Huang X. A robust TALENs system for highly efficient mammalian genome editing. Sci. Rep. 2014 Jan 10;4:3632.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Mazmanian SK, Skaar EP, Gaspar AH, Humayun M, Gornicki P, Jelenska J, et al. Passage of heme-iron across the envelope of Staphylococcus aureus. Science. 2003 Feb 7;299(5608):906–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle M. Thermodynamics of Surfaces and Capillary Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

Stock O, Schaerf M, editors. Reasoning, Action and Interaction in AI Theories and Systems: Essays Dedicated to Luigia Carlucci Aiello. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Pickett HA, Reddel RR. Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres in Human Cells. In: Hiyama K, editor. Telomeres and Telomerase in Cancer. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2009. p. 127–48.

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 E. Meet The World’s Largest Living Organism [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-worlds-largest-living-organism/

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Comments on IRS’ Portion of President’s Request for Fiscal Year 1993 Supplemental Funds. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 Feb. Report No.: T-IMTEC-93-1.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Miranda PJ. Tightly-coupled sulfur-cycling microbial mats of the White Point hydrothermal vent field, CA: An analog for deep-sea vents [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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

Barry E. A Dozen Writers Put Down Their Pens to Prove the Might of a March. New York Times. 2012 May 13;A9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Powell 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Bennett and Shor 2004; Powell 2005).

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

Two authors: (Bennett and Shor 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mazmanian et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematics in Industry
Abbreviation	J. Math. Ind.
ISSN (online)	2190-5983
Scope	Applied Mathematics