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

Shatz, C. J. (2006). Lawrence C. Katz (1956-2005). Nature, 439(7073), 152.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jones, M. K., & Liu, X. (2009). Archaeology. Origins of agriculture in East Asia. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5928), 730–731.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen, Y., Knoll, A. H., & Walter, M. R. (2003). Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin. Nature, 423(6940), 632–635.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Levin-Zaidman, S., Englander, J., Shimoni, E., Sharma, A. K., Minton, K. W., & Minsky, A. (2003). Ringlike structure of the Deinococcus radiodurans genome: a key to radioresistance? Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5604), 254–256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woo, J.-H., Sohn, J.-H., Nam, B.-G., & Yoo, H.-J. (2010). Mobile 3D Graphics SoC. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Dubinsky, Z., & Stambler, N. (Eds.). (2011). Coral Reefs: An Ecosystem in Transition. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Acker, J. F., Berkels, B., Bredies, K., Diallo, M. S., Droske, M., Garbe, C. S., et al. (2008). Inverse Problems and Parameter Identification in Image Processing. In R. Dahlhaus, J. Kurths, P. Maass, & J. Timmer (Eds.), Mathematical Methods in Signal Processing and Digital Image Analysis (pp. 111–151). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

O`Callaghan, J. (2015, October 6). New Model Can Measure The Mass Of Pulsars Even If They Are All Alone. 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. (2016). Next Generation Air Transportation System: Information on Expenditures, Schedule, and Cost Estimates, Fiscal Years 2004 -- 2030 (No. GAO-17-241R). 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

Lee, S. (2013). Control-display alignment modulates dimensional salience (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Paulson, M. (2017, September 6). ‘Mean Girls’ Musical Is Broadway Bound. New York Times, p. C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shatz 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Jones and Liu 2009; Shatz 2006).

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

Two authors: (Jones and Liu 2009)
Three or more authors: (Levin-Zaidman et al. 2003)

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