How to format your references using the Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics. 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

Check, E.: Pathogen-tracking questioned. Nature. 420, 451 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Morriswood, B., Warren, G.: Cell biology. Stalemate in the Golgi battle. Science. 341, 1465–1466 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lacetera, N., Macis, M., Slonim, R.: Public health. Economic rewards to motivate blood donations. Science. 340, 927–928 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jones, P.J., Huhtamäki, J.A.M., Salmilehto, J., Tan, K.Y., Möttönen, M.: Tunable electromagnetic environment for superconducting quantum bits. Sci. Rep. 3, 1987 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hao, L., Lawrence, J.: Laser Surface Treatment of Bio-Implant Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2006)

An edited book

Richtler, T., Larsen, S. eds: Globular Clusters - Guides to Galaxies: Proceedings of the Joint ESO-FONDAP Workshop on Globular Clusters held in Concepción, Chile, 6–10 March 2006. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Schweingruber, F.H., Börner, A., Schulze, E.-D.: Anatomical Adaptations to Environmental Conditions. In: Börner, A. and Schulze, E.-D. (eds.) Atlas of Stem Anatomy in Herbs, Shrubs and Trees: Volume 2. pp. 355–370. 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 Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Why the Zebra Got Its Stripes, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-zebra-got-its-stripes/

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: Information Technology: DHS Needs to Enhance Management of Major Investments. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2013)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cook, E.J.: Older Americans Act of 1965, Title III: A policy analysis, (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

Brantley, B.: Terrors of an Unfixed Reality, (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	Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics
Abbreviation	Mediterr. J. Math.
ISSN (print)	1660-5446
ISSN (online)	1660-5454
Scope	General Mathematics