How to format your references using the Mathematics in Computer Science citation style

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

Schilling, G.: ASTRONOMY: Watch This Space! Science. 289, 238b (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lundeberg, M.B., Folk, J.A.: Physics. Harnessing chirality for valleytronics. Science. 346, 422–423 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, Y., Yi, M., Zou, X.: The linear interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic noises ensures a high accuracy of cell fate selection in budding yeast. Sci. Rep. 4, 5764 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dubrova, Y.E., Plumb, M., Gutierrez, B., Boulton, E., Jeffreys, A.J.: Transgenerational mutation by radiation. Nature. 405, 37 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gowler, D.B.: James Through the Centuries. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford (2013)

An edited book

Blanc-Talon, J., Philips, W., Popescu, D., Scheunders, P. eds: Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 9th International Conference, ACIVS 2007, Delft, The Netherlands, August 28-31, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Mellal, N., Dapoigny, R., Barlatier, P., Foulloy, L.: Modeling and Multi-agent Specification of IF-Based Distributed Goal Ontologies. In: Ali, M. and Dapoigny, R. (eds.) Advances in Applied Artificial Intelligence: 19th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2006, Annecy, France, June 27-30, 2006. Proceedings. pp. 14–23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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 in Computer Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Scientists Dissociate Benefits Of Medical Marijuana From Its Negative Side Effects, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-dissociate-benefits-medical-marijuana-its-negative-side-effects/

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: [Department of the Interior: Migratory Bird Hunting Final Rule]. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tsai, C.-N.: A simulation study of hierarchical wireless sensor networks, (2012)

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.: Treasury Dept. Rejects Plan to Cut Benefits for Teamsters, (2016)

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 in Computer Science
Abbreviation	Math. Comput. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1661-8270
ISSN (online)	1661-8289
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics