How to format your references using the Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry. 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

Smaglik, P.: “Quiet revolution” in chemistry could revive public and private sectors. Nature. 406, 807–808 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Stuart, D.R., Fagnou, K.: The catalytic cross-coupling of unactivated arenes. Science. 316, 1172–1175 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Meza, L.R., Das, S., Greer, J.R.: Strong, lightweight, and recoverable three-dimensional ceramic nanolattices. Science. 345, 1322–1326 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han, P., Lavoir, A.-V., Le Bot, J., Amiens-Desneux, E., Desneux, N.: Nitrogen and water availability to tomato plants triggers bottom-up effects on the leafminer Tuta absoluta. Sci. Rep. 4, 4455 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG: Funding Atlas 2012. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2013)

An edited book

Bruno, R.: Turbulence in the Solar Wind. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Heine, V.M., Dooves, S., Holmes, D., Wagner, J.: Conclusions. In: Dooves, S., Holmes, D., and Wagner, J. (eds.) Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Brain Diseases: Understanding the Methods, Epigenetic Basis, and Applications for Regenerative Medicine. pp. 55–59. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2012)

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 Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry.

Blog post

Taub, B.: The Neural Basis For Psychosomatic Illness May Have Been Discovered

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: FCC: Policies and Rules Concerning Children’s Television Programming--Revision of Programming Policies for Television Broadcast Stations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wyers, M.L.: An Investigation of Teacher Understanding and Perceptions of the Effectiveness of the Use of Learning Targets in the Classroom, (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

Seymour, M.: How About a Nightcap?, (2015)

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	Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry
Abbreviation	Math. Phys. Anal. Geom.
ISSN (print)	1385-0172
ISSN (online)	1572-9656
Scope	Geometry and Topology Mathematical Physics