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

Greenberg, D.S.: A two-year plan for US science. Nature. 467, 781–782 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Visscher, M., Taylor, T.: Pressure ulcers in the hospitalized neonate: rates and risk factors. Sci. Rep. 4, 7429 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Marcus, G., Marblestone, A., Dean, T.: Neuroscience. The atoms of neural computation. Science. 346, 551–552 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Grujić, J., Gracia-Lázaro, C., Milinski, M., Semmann, D., Traulsen, A., Cuesta, J.A., Moreno, Y., Sánchez, A.: A comparative analysis of spatial Prisoner’s Dilemma experiments: conditional cooperation and payoff irrelevance. Sci. Rep. 4, 4615 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tavakoli, J.M.: Structured Finance and Collateralized Debt Obligations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2008)

An edited book

Gondran, M.: Graphs, Dioids and Semirings: New Models and Algorithms. Springer US, Boston, MA (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Loke, S.W.: Towards Real-Time Context Awareness for Mobile Users: A Declarative Meta-Programming Approach. In: Burstein, F., Brézillon, P., and Zaslavsky, A. (eds.) Supporting Real Time Decision-Making: The Role of Context in Decision Support on the Move. pp. 89–112. Springer US, Boston, MA (2011)

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

Fang, J.: Different Monkey Species Can Understand One Another’s “Languages,” https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monkeys-use-suffixes-too/

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: NATO-Warsaw Pact: Conventional Force Balance--Papers for U.S. and Soviet Perspectives Workshops. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Delaney, R.M.: A qualitative descriptive case study explaining professional development in community corrections, (2014)

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

Kelly, C.: You Loved My Film? Thanks, Man. Spare a Dime?, (2013)

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