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

Scadden, D. T. (2006). The stem-cell niche as an entity of action. Nature, 441(7097), 1075–1079.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shorter, J., & Lindquist, S. (2004). Hsp104 catalyzes formation and elimination of self-replicating Sup35 prion conformers. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5678), 1793–1797.

A journal article with 3 authors

Butler, M. A., Sawyer, S. A., & Losos, J. B. (2007). Sexual dimorphism and adaptive radiation in Anolis lizards. Nature, 447(7141), 202–205.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yan, R., Xu, D., Yang, J., Walker, S., & Zhang, Y. (2013). A comparative assessment and analysis of 20 representative sequence alignment methods for protein structure prediction. Scientific reports, 3, 2619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghez, R. (2005). A Primer of Diffusion Problems. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Bello, F., Kajimoto, H., & Visell, Y. (Eds.). (2016). Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications: 10th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2016, London, UK, July 4-7, 2016, Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 9775). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Cushman, R. A., McDaneld, T. G., Kuehn, L. A., Snelling, W. M., & Nonneman, D. (2014). Incorporation of Genetic Technologies Associated with Applied Reproductive Technologies to Enhance World Food Production. In G. C. Lamb & N. DiLorenzo (Eds.), Current and Future Reproductive Technologies and World Food Production (pp. 77–96). New York, NY: Springer.

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

Taub, B. (2016, August 15). Large Human Brains May Have Evolved In Order To Judge Others. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (2006). Election Reform: Nine States’ Experiences Implementing Federal Requirements for Computerized Statewide Voter Registration Lists (No. GAO-06-247). 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

Wellman, T. E. (2017). Employment Discrimination against Military Spouses: Illegal Contrary to Popular Belief and Practice (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Hubbard, B., & Schmitt, E. (2017, July 21). Saudi Official Who Fell From View Is Promoted. New York Times, p. A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scadden 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Scadden 2006; Shorter and Lindquist 2004).

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

Two authors: (Shorter and Lindquist 2004)
Three or more authors: (Yan et al. 2013)

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