How to format your references using the Mathematische Annalen citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematische Annalen. 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

Ferrante, A.W., Jr: Biomedicine. Improving metabolism by throwing out all the JNK. Science. 339, 147–148 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hall, A., Stouffer, R.J.: An abrupt climate event in a coupled ocean-atmosphere simulation without external forcing. Nature. 409, 171–174 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Pullium, J.K., Roble, G.S., Raymond, M.A.: Emergency planning: Be prepared. Nature. 514, 430 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dervyn, E., Suski, C., Daniel, R., Bruand, C., Chapuis, J., Errington, J., Jannière, L., Ehrlich, S.D.: Two essential DNA polymerases at the bacterial replication fork. Science. 294, 1716–1719 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharma, Y.C.: A Guide to the Economic Removal of Metals from Aqueous Solutions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Weist, M.D., Lever, N.A., Bradshaw, C.P., Owens, J.S. eds: Handbook of School Mental Health: Research, Training, Practice, and Policy. Springer US, Boston, MA (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, D.-H., Kim, K.-R., Kim, H.-J.: Bunker Oil C Heating Using Induction Heating. In: Lee, J., Lee, M.C., Liu, H., and Ryu, J.-H. (eds.) Intelligent Robotics and Applications: 6th International Conference, ICIRA 2013, Busan, South Korea, September 25-28, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. pp. 25–30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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 Mathematische Annalen.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Galactic Merger Spotted in a Protocluster 12.5 Billion Light-Years Away, https://www.iflscience.com/space/galactic-merger-spotted-protocluster-125-billion-light-years-away/

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: Executive Guide: Leading Practices in Capital Decision-Making (Superseded by AIMD-99-32). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lurz, J.P.: Using Simplified Models and Limited-Horizon Planning to React to Time-Critical Problems, (2019)

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

Pilon, M.: At 28, Abbott Wins 4th U.S. Title and Has a Teenage Teammate for the Olympics, (2014)

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	Mathematische Annalen
Abbreviation	Math. Ann.
ISSN (print)	0025-5831
ISSN (online)	1432-1807
Scope	General Mathematics