How to format your references using the Mathematics Education Research Journal citation style

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

Kamionkowski, M. (2009). Astrophysics: Gravity ripples chased. Nature, 460(7258), 964–965.

A journal article with 2 authors

van der Zwaag, D., & Meijer, E. W. (2015). SELF-ORGANIZATION. Fueling connections between chemistry and biology. Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6252), 1056–1057.

A journal article with 3 authors

Christensen, U. R., Holzwarth, V., & Reiners, A. (2009). Energy flux determines magnetic field strength of planets and stars. Nature, 457(7226), 167–169.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Müller-Navarra, D. C., Brett, M. T., Park, S., Chandra, S., Ballantyne, A. P., Zorita, E., & Goldman, C. R. (2004). Unsaturated fatty acid content in seston and tropho-dynamic coupling in lakes. Nature, 427(6969), 69–72.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Joglekar, A. M. (2010). Industrial Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Jeannot, E., Namyst, R., & Roman, J. (Eds.). (2011). Euro-Par 2011 Parallel Processing: 17th International Conference, Euro-Par 2011, Bordeaux, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 6853). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Johnson, R. G. (2016). There and Back Again – Andrew Booth, a British Computer Pioneer, and his Interactions with US and Other Contemporaries. In A. Tatnall & C. Leslie (Eds.), International Communities of Invention and Innovation: IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2016, Brooklyn, NY, USA, May 25-29, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 58–70). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Education Research Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 7). Puff Adder Attack In Slow Motion. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/puff-adder-attack-slow-motion/. Accessed 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. (1976). NASA Designation of Their Ames Facility to Be Lead Center for Helicopter Research and Development (No. LCD-77-301). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alsobrook, J. A. (2013). Music Education in America: A Content Analysis and National Perspective of Standards-Based Outcomes for K–8 General Music (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Lyman, R., & Walsh, M. W. (2014, January 15). Task Force Report Urges Municipalities to Stop Hiding Fiscal Troubles. New York Times, p. A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kamionkowski 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Kamionkowski 2009; van der Zwaag and Meijer 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (van der Zwaag and Meijer 2015)
Three or more authors: (Müller-Navarra et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mathematics Education Research Journal
Abbreviation	Math. Educ. Res. J.
ISSN (print)	1033-2170
ISSN (online)	2211-050X
Scope	General Mathematics Education