How to format your references using the Manuscripta Mathematica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Manuscripta Mathematica. 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

Rosswog, S.: Astronomy. Short gamma-ray bursts. Science. 303, 46–47 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, J., Feringa, B.L.: Dynamic control of chiral space in a catalytic asymmetric reaction using a molecular motor. Science. 331, 1429–1432 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuff, J., Wade, J., Wood, B.J.: Volcanism on Mars controlled by early oxidation of the upper mantle. Nature. 498, 342–345 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lemma, V., D’Agostino, M., Caporaso, M.G., Mallardo, M., Oliviero, G., Stornaiuolo, M., Bonatti, S.: A disorder-to-order structural transition in the COOH-tail of Fz4 determines misfolding of the L501fsX533-Fz4 mutant. Sci. Rep. 3, 2659 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rabe, J.L., Martorana, R.J.: Alts Democratized. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Hartmann, S., Zhou, X., Kirchberg, M. eds: Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2008 Workshops: WISE 2008 International Workshops, Auckland, New Zealand, September 1-4, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Eades, A., Deal, A., Bhattacharyya, A., Hooghan, T.: Energy Filtering in EBSD. In: Schwartz, A.J., Kumar, M., Adams, B.L., and Field, D.P. (eds.) Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science. pp. 53–63. Springer US, Boston, MA (2009)

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 Manuscripta Mathematica.

Blog post

Davis, J.: World’s First Fluorescent Frog Discovered In The Amazon

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: NASA Workforce: Briefing on National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Use of Term Appointments. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alimo, C.J.: From dialogue to action: The development of White racial allies, (2010)

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

Baker, K.J.: White-Collar Supremacy, (2016)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Manuscripta Mathematica
Abbreviation	Manuscripta Math.
ISSN (print)	0025-2611
ISSN (online)	1432-1785
Scope	General Mathematics