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

Eichinger, N.: Getting in the frame. Nature. 446, 104–105 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Long, Y., Wang, J.: Optically-controlled extinction ratio and Q-factor tunable silicon microring resonators based on optical forces. Sci. Rep. 4, 5409 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

van Doorn, G.S., Edelaar, P., Weissing, F.J.: On the origin of species by natural and sexual selection. Science. 326, 1704–1707 (2009)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Savage, P.A., Vosseller, K., Kang, C., Larimore, K., Riedel, E., Wojnoonski, K., Jungbluth, A.A., Allison, J.P.: Recognition of a ubiquitous self antigen by prostate cancer-infiltrating CD8+ T lymphocytes. Science. 319, 215–220 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perez, A.: Network Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Pleyer, U.: Uveitis and Immunological Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrario, D.: Il cinema secondo Fibonacci. In: Emmer, M. (ed.) Matematica e Cultura 2006. pp. 15–20. Springer, Milano (2006)

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

Hale, T.: Just A Small Number Of Driverless Cars On The Highway Could Slash Traffic Jams

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: Federal-Aid Highways: Cost and Oversight of Major Highway and Bridge Projects--Issues and Options. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2003)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shah, R.A.: Who am I? A biracial and interfaith woman’s perspective: A personal narrative, (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

Shear, M.D., Stolberg, S.G.: President Meets With McConnell, Like Old Friends, (2017)

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