How to format your references using the Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences. 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

Dajani, R.: The Arab Spring offers hope but no quick fix. Nature. 477, 7 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Berkman, P.A., Young, O.R.: Science and government. Governance and environmental change in the Arctic Ocean. Science. 324, 339–340 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

McGraw, C.M., Samaco, R.C., Zoghbi, H.Y.: Adult neural function requires MeCP2. Science. 333, 186 (2011)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Luo, G., Malkova, S., Yoon, J., Schultz, D.G., Lin, B., Meron, M., Benjamin, I., Vanysek, P., Schlossman, M.L.: Ion distributions near a liquid-liquid interface. Science. 311, 216–218 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cochetti, R.: Mobile Satellite Communications Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Osellame, R., Cerullo, G., Ramponi, R. eds: Femtosecond Laser Micromachining: Photonic and Microfluidic Devices in Transparent Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Rischpater, R., Zucker, D.: Doing More with Qt. In: Zucker, D. (ed.) Beginning Nokia Apps Development: Qt and HTML5 for Symbian and MeeGo. pp. 87–137. Apress, Berkeley, CA (2010)

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 Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences.

Blog post

Davis, J.: One In Eight Children Currently At Risk Of Measles In The U.S

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: Deaf Education: Costs and Student Characteristics at Federally Assisted Schools. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1986)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Binkley, P.M.: Relationship of Graduate Student Involvement to Graduate Alumni Donor Behavior, (2012)

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

Sisario, B.: Jay-Z’s ‘4:44’ Takes An Easy Trip to No. 1, (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	Proceedings - Mathematical Sciences
ISSN (print)	0253-4142
ISSN (online)	0973-7685
Scope