How to format your references using the Mathematische Zeitschrift citation style

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

Hughes, A.L.: Strength in numbers. Nature. 417, 795 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Emanuel, E.J., Wertheimer, A.: Public health. Who should get influenza vaccine when not all can? Science. 312, 854–855 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Haider, B., Häusser, M., Carandini, M.: Inhibition dominates sensory responses in the awake cortex. Nature. 493, 97–100 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jin, H., Rhim, S.H., Im, J., Freeman, A.J.: Topological oxide insulator in cubic perovskite structure. Sci. Rep. 3, 1651 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen, R.N.: Practical Relativity. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2010)

An edited book

Park, J.J. (jong H., Chao, H.-C., Arabnia, H., Yen, N.Y. eds: Advanced Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering: Future Information Technology Volume 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Piccioni, M., Chen, Z., Tsun, A., Li, B.: Regulatory T-Cell Differentiation and Their Function in Immune Regulation. In: Sun, B. (ed.) T Helper Cell Differentiation and Their Function. pp. 67–97. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2014)

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 Zeitschrift.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Scientists May Have Solved Origins Of Mysterious Feature In Venus’ Atmosphere, https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-may-have-solved-origins-mysterious-feature-venus-atmosphere/

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: Aviation Security: TSA Is Increasing Procurement and Deployment of the Advanced Imaging Technology, but Challenges to This Effort and Other Areas of Aviation Security Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2010)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Marmolejo, R.: Drop-in center for homeless veteran families: A grant proposal, (2013)

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

Eligon, J., Mather, V.: Mayweather Overcomes McGregor in the 10th Round, (2017)

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 Zeitschrift
Abbreviation	Math. Z.
ISSN (print)	0025-5874
ISSN (online)	1432-1823
Scope	General Mathematics