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

Lipton, S.A.: Turning down, but not off. Nature. 428, 473 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Tan, S., Lü, J.: Characterizing the effect of population heterogeneity on evolutionary dynamics on complex networks. Sci. Rep. 4, 5034 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Dahal, D., Liu, S., Oeding, J.: The carbon cycle and hurricanes in the United States between 1900 and 2011. Sci. Rep. 4, 5197 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cha, T.-L., Zhou, B.P., Xia, W., Wu, Y., Yang, C.-C., Chen, C.-T., Ping, B., Otte, A.P., Hung, M.-C.: Akt-mediated phosphorylation of EZH2 suppresses methylation of lysine 27 in histone H3. Science. 310, 306–310 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klee, L.: International Construction Contract Law. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

LePage, B.A., Williams, C.J., Yang, H. eds: The Geobiology and Ecology of Metasequoia. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Abram, M.R., Di Caprio, U.: Dynamical Systems and Automata. In: Minati, G., Abram, M.R., and Pessa, E. (eds.) Towards a Post-Bertalanffy Systemics. pp. 41–50. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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

Hamilton, K.: Girls May Perform Better At School Than Boys – But Their Experience Is Much Less Happy

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 Reform: Progress Made; More Needs to Be Done to Complete Actions and Measure Results. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2012)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Djajalaksana, Y.M.: A National Survey of Instructional Strategies Used to Teach Information Systems Courses: An Exploratory Investigation, (2011)

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

Rothenberg, B.: Once a Prodigy, Now Stronger for Her Struggles, (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