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

Moore, P.D.: A never-ending story. Nature. 409, 565 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Liston, C., Kagan, J.: Brain development: memory enhancement in early childhood. Nature. 419, 896 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Royer, D.L., Osborne, C.P., Beerling, D.J.: Carbon loss by deciduous trees in a CO2-rich ancient polar environment. Nature. 424, 60–62 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hur, N., Park, S., Sharma, P.A., Ahn, J.S., Guha, S., Cheong, S.-W.: Electric polarization reversal and memory in a multiferroic material induced by magnetic fields. Nature. 429, 392–395 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMillan, E.J.: Not-for-Profit Budgeting and Financial Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Alaoui-Jamali, M. ed: Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Cancer: Integrative Approaches and Discovery of Conventional Drugs. Springer US, Boston, MA (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Schmidl, D., an Mey, D., Müller, M.S.: Performance Characteristics of Large SMP Machines. In: Rendell, A.P., Chapman, B.M., and Müller, M.S. (eds.) OpenMP in the Era of Low Power Devices and Accelerators: 9th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2013, Canberra, ACT, Australia, September 16-18, 2013. Proceedings. pp. 58–70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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

Andrew, E.: Our Mostly Dry Planetary Neighbors Once Had Lots of Water—What Does That Imply For Us?, https://www.iflscience.com/space/our-mostly-dry-planetary-neighbors-once-had-lots-water-what-does-imply-us/

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: Ship Acquisitions. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1994)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yuknis, C.M.: A grounded theory of deaf middle school students’ revision of their own writing, (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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by: Arts, Briefly; Russian Officials Say Looted War Art Can Stay, (2005)

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