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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Milan 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

Brenner, M.P.: Fluid mechanics. Jets from a singular surface. Nature. 403, 377–378 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Métin, C., Luccardini, C.: Neuroscience. Ubiquitination inhibits neuronal exit. Science. 330, 1754–1755 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wible, B., Mervis, J., Wigginton, N.S.: The global supply chain. Rethinking the global supply chain. Introduction. Science. 344, 1100–1103 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, K., Hirst, J., Camba, R., Bonagura, C.A., Stout, C.D., Burgess, B.K., Armstrong, F.A.: Atomically defined mechanism for proton transfer to a buried redox centre in a protein. Nature. 405, 814–817 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fleckenstein, P., Tranum-Jensen, J., Myschetzky, P.S.: Anatomy in Diagnostic Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK (2014)

An edited book

Szczepaniak, P.S., Kacprzyk, J., Niewiadomski, A. eds: Advances in Web Intelligence: Third International Atlantic Web Intelligence Conference, AWIC 2005, Lodz, Poland, June 6-9, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Derval, D., Bremer, J.: Build a Winning Team. In: Bremer, J. (ed.) Hormones, Talent, and Career: Unlock Your Hormonal Quotient®. pp. 53–70. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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 Milan Journal of Mathematics.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Signs Of Comets Detected Around A Sun-Like Star, https://www.iflscience.com/space/signs-comets-detected-around-sun-star/

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: Multiple Launch Rocket System: Range Less Than Needed and Sustained Rocket Production Not Ensured. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shamloo Aliabadi, E.: The effect of distortion on trajectory of diesel Particulate Matters (PM) from mobile sources, (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

Gorman, J.: Your Dog Remembers More Than You Think, (2016)

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	Milan Journal of Mathematics
Abbreviation	Milan J. Math.
ISSN (print)	1424-9286
ISSN (online)	1424-9294
Scope	General Mathematics