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

Shevach EM (2008) Immunology. Regulating suppression. Science 322:202–203

A journal article with 2 authors

Ochman H, Raghavan R (2009) Systems biology. Excavating the functional landscape of bacterial cells. Science 326:1200–1201

A journal article with 3 authors

Wilmé L, Goodman SM, Ganzhorn JU (2006) Biogeographic evolution of Madagascar’s microendemic biota. Science 312:1063–1065

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lu Q-B, Wo Y, Wang L-Y, et al (2014) Molecular epidemiology of human rhinovirus in children with acute respiratory diseases in Chongqing, China. Sci Rep 4:6686

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sahinoglu M (2016) Cyber-Risk Informatics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dörner R, Göbel S, Effelsberg W, Wiemeyer J (2016) Serious Games: Foundations, Concepts and Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Meijer HJM, Essers M, Struikmans H, et al (2016) Contributions and Risks of Radiation Therapy in Managing Cancer During Pregnancy. In: Azim HA Jr (ed) Managing Cancer during Pregnancy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–54

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

Andrews R (2016) Listen To The Sound Of Humanity’s Very First Language. In: IFLScience. 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 (1992) DOT Headquarters: Unclear Whether Union Station Site Is Best Location. 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

Baghdadi M (2012) A comparison of gender representation in English (EFL) and Arabic (AFL) textbooks in Iran: A critical discourse analysis. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Sophia Collier; Sophia Collier is the president of the American Natural Beverage Corporation (1988) STREET SMARTS. New York Times 674

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
Scope

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