How to format your references using the Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations. 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

Rachman, S.: Cleaning damned spots from the obsessive mind. Nature. 503, 7 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulet, J.F.A., Hedwig, B.: A corollary discharge maintains auditory sensitivity during sound production. Nature. 418, 872–876 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Mennill, D.J., Ratcliffe, L.M., Boag, P.T.: Female eavesdropping on male song contests in songbirds. Science. 296, 873 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Borg, L.E., Shearer, C.K., Asmerom, Y., Papike, J.J.: Prolonged KREEP magmatism on the Moon indicated by the youngest dated lunar igneous rock. Nature. 432, 209–211 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lednicer, D.: Antineoplastic Drugs. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Lai, X., Zhou, J., Li, H. eds: Information Security: 14th International Conference, ISC 2011, Xi’an, China, October 26-29, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Rhodes, R.: Justice in Allocations for Terrorism, Biological Warfare, and Public Health. In: Boylan, M. (ed.) Public Health Policy and Ethics. pp. 73–90. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

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 Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: What Would Happen To Earth If All Humans Disappeared?

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: Transportation Infrastructure: States’ Implementation of Transportation Management Systems. 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

Casale, N.: Generational preferences in marketing medium selections of animal adoptions in nonprofit organizations: A correlational study, (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

Kishkovsky, S.: August 13-19; Czar Beatified, (2000)

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	Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations
Abbreviation	Quantum Stud. Math. Found.
ISSN (print)	2196-5609
ISSN (online)	2196-5617
Scope