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

Silverman, E.K.: Perspective: How can genetics help? Nature. 489, S7 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Carter, R.M., Gammon, P.: New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma. Science. 304, 1659–1662 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Pertsinidis, A., Zhang, Y., Chu, S.: Subnanometre single-molecule localization, registration and distance measurements. Nature. 466, 647–651 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, H.S., Tan, Y., Ma, W., Merkurjev, D., Destici, E., Ma, Q., Suter, T., Ohgi, K., Friedman, M., Skowronska-Krawczyk, D., Rosenfeld, M.G.: Pluripotency factors functionally premark cell-type-restricted enhancers in ES cells. Nature. 556, 510–514 (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahamed, S.V.: Intelligent Internet Knowledge Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2006)

An edited book

Patil, A., Gray, P. eds: Engineering Education Quality Assurance: A Global Perspective. Springer US, Boston, MA (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Regine, G., Atzori, M., Fabbri, R.: Mdc in ecografia pediatrica e nello studio dei reflussi vescico-uretrali: «cistosonografia». In: Atzori, M. and Fabbri, R. (eds.) Ecocontrastografia dell’apparato urinario. pp. 45–54. Springer, Milano (2012)

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

Andrew, E.: Researchers Reveal Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor Yet

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: Telecommunications: GSA Has Made Progress in Planning Governmentwide Program but Challenges Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2004)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Surges, G.: Generative Audio Systems: Musical Applications of Time-Varying Feedback Networks and Computational Aesthetics, (2015)

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

Kolomatsky, M.: September’s Most Popular Listings, (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