How to format your references using the Mathematics and Financial Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematics and Financial Economics. 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

Zhang, X.: Plant science. Delayed gratification--waiting to terminate stem cell identity. Science. 343, 498–499 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Metzger, C.H., Karrai, K.: Cavity cooling of a microlever. Nature. 432, 1002–1005 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Cottam, J., Paerels, F., Mendez, M.: Gravitationally redshifted absorption lines in the X-ray burst spectra of a neutron star. Nature. 420, 51–54 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Soucek, L., Whitfield, J., Martins, C.P., Finch, A.J., Murphy, D.J., Sodir, N.M., Karnezis, A.N., Swigart, L.B., Nasi, S., Evan, G.I.: Modelling Myc inhibition as a cancer therapy. Nature. 455, 679–683 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bayor, R.H.: Fiorello La Guardia. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

Hassanien, A.-E., Abawajy, J.H., Abraham, A., Hagras, H. eds: Pervasive Computing: Innovations in Intelligent Multimedia and Applications. Springer, London (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Jørgensen, S.E.: Application of ecological engineering principles in landscape management. In: Mander, Ü., Wiggering, H., and Helming, K. (eds.) Multifunctional Land Use: Meeting Future Demands for Landscape Goods and Services. pp. 83–92. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

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 Mathematics and Financial Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Galaxy Cluster 9.9 Billion Light Years Away Confirmed

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: Highlights of a Forum: Data and Analytics Innovation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garcia, R.: The California State University education doctorate: Public policy for the public good, (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

Pilon, M.: Drug-Testing Company Tied to N.C.A.A. Stirs Criticism, (2013)

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	Mathematics and Financial Economics
Abbreviation	Math. Financ. Econ.
ISSN (print)	1862-9679
ISSN (online)	1862-9660
Scope	Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty Finance Statistics and Probability