How to format your references using the Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematics-in-Industry Case Studies. 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

Victor P (2010) Questioning economic growth. Nature 468:370–371

A journal article with 2 authors

Pyle J, Harris N (2013) Joe Farman (1930-2013). Nature 498:435

A journal article with 3 authors

Elion EA, Qi M, Chen W (2005) Signal transduction. Signaling specificity in yeast. Science 307:687–688

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Asadi M, Sayahpour B, Abbasi P, et al (2018) A lithium-oxygen battery with a long cycle life in an air-like atmosphere. Nature 555:502–506

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pérez Fontán F, Mariño Espiñeira P (2008) Modeling the Wireless Propagation Channel. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yoshida H, Näppi JJ, Saini S (2014) Abdominal Imaging. Computational and Clinical Applications: 6th International Workshop, ABDI 2014, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2014, Cambridge, MA, USA, September 14, 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

de Smet MD, van Velthoven MEJ (2009) Combined Optical Coherence Tomography and Confocal Ophthalmoscopy (OCT/SLO). In: Coscas F, Vismara S, Zourdani A, Calzi CIL (eds) Optical Coherence Tomography in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: OCT in AMD. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–65

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-Industry Case Studies.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) Dung Beetles Evolved With Dinosaurs. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dung-beetles-evolved-dinosaurs/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1979) Protest of Contract Award to NASA by City of Los Angeles. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Witt SR (2017) A Study of the Relationship of Online Course Factors and Passing or Failing an Online Course. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Grynbaum MM (2017) Turning Up the Pro-Trump Volume. New York Times B1

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-Industry Case Studies
Abbreviation	Math. Ind. Case Stud.
ISSN (online)	1913-4967
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