How to format your references using the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education citation style

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

Zars, T. (2012). Physiology. She said no, pass me a beer. Science (New York, N.Y.), 335(6074), 1309–1310.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carlsson, F., & Brown, E. J. (2009). Cell biology. The art of making an exit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 323(5922), 1678–1679.

A journal article with 3 authors

Griffin, B. M., Schott, J., & Schink, B. (2007). Nitrite, an electron donor for anoxygenic photosynthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5833), 1870.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Bode, M., Heide, M., von Bergmann, K., Ferriani, P., Heinze, S., Bihlmayer, G., et al. (2007). Chiral magnetic order at surfaces driven by inversion asymmetry. Nature, 447(7141), 190–193.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lee, K. B. (2011). Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Manolopoulos, Y. (2006). R-Trees: Theory and Applications. (A. Nanopoulos, A. N. Papadopoulos, & Y. Theodoridis, Eds.). London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Drałus, G. (2015). Study the Quality of Global Neural Model with Regard to the Local Models of Dynamic Complex System. In L. Gołębiowski & D. Mazur (Eds.), Analysis and Simulation of Electrical and Computer Systems (pp. 35–61). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Teacher Education.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, June 23). Scientists Snap Stunning Photograph Of Star Cluster. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/supermodel-galaxy/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (1977). Establishing a Proper Fee Schedule Under the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952 (No. CED-77-70). Washington, DC: 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

Chan, A. B. (2008). Beyond dynamic textures: A family of stochastic dynamical models for video with applications to computer vision (Doctoral dissertation). University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

(nyt), S. K. (2003, December 12). World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Kidnapped Boy Freed After Three Years. New York Times, p. A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zars 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Carlsson and Brown 2009; Zars 2012).

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

Two authors: (Carlsson and Brown 2009)
Three or more authors: (Bode et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education
Abbreviation	J. Math. Teach. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1386-4416
ISSN (online)	1573-1820
Scope	General Mathematics Education