How to format your references using the Mathematics citation style

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

McGillicuddy, D.J., Jr Oceans. Eddies Masquerade as Planetary Waves. Science 2011, 334, 318–319.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liao, S.; Seeman, N.C. Translation of DNA Signals into Polymer Assembly Instructions. Science 2004, 306, 2072–2074.

A journal article with 3 authors

Munday, J.N.; Capasso, F.; Parsegian, V.A. Measured Long-Range Repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz Forces. Nature 2009, 457, 170–173.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Szabadics, J.; Varga, C.; Molnár, G.; Oláh, S.; Barzó, P.; Tamás, G. Excitatory Effect of GABAergic Axo-Axonic Cells in Cortical Microcircuits. Science 2006, 311, 233–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Giannini, F.; Leuzzi, G. Nonlinear Microwave Circuit Design; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2005; ISBN 9780470020708.

An edited book

Information Computing and Applications: 4th International Conference, ICICA 2013, Singapore, August 16-18, 2013 Revised Selected Papers, Part II; Yang, Y., Ma, M., Liu, B., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013; Vol. 392; ISBN 9783642537028.

A chapter in an edited book

Peeters, S. Choosing the Best Workflow. In Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst: The New Workflow; Andres, C., Anglin, S., Beckner, M., Buckingham, E., Cornell, G., Gennick, J., Hassell, J., Lowman, M., Moodie, M., Parkes, D., Pepper, J., Pohlmann, F., Pundick, D., Renow-Clarke, B., Shakeshaft, D., Wade, M., Welsh, T., Eds.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2010; pp. 131–185 ISBN 9781430228356.

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.

Blog post

Andrews, R. Underwater Robot Reveals Colorful Explosion Of Life Beneath Antarctica (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Review of Army’s Efforts To Develop TACFIRE; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1978;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hall, K.N. Facilitating Physically Active Identity Development in Older Women. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ, 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

Walsh, M.W. Pension Ruling in Detroit Echoes West to California. New York Times 2013, A20.

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
ISSN (online)	2227-7390
Scope