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

Morris, P.: Joseph E. Murray (1919-2012). Nature. 493, 164 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Alici, K.B., Gallardo, I.F.: Detecting secondary structure and surface orientation of helical peptide monolayers from resonant hybridization signals. Sci. Rep. 3, 2956 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, M., Yu, X., Ahlberg, P.E.: A primitive sarcopterygian fish with an eyestalk. Nature. 410, 81–84 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pertz, O., Hodgson, L., Klemke, R.L., Hahn, K.M.: Spatiotemporal dynamics of RhoA activity in migrating cells. Nature. 440, 1069–1072 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mcphee, J.E.: Mastering Strategic Risk. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Sheppard, B.: School District Leadership Matters. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Lorenz, H., Döllner, J.: High-Quality Non-planar Projections Using Real-Time Piecewise Perspective Projections. In: Ranchordas, A., Pereira, J.M., Araújo, H.J., and Tavares, J.M.R.S. (eds.) Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications: International Joint Conference, VISIGRAPP 2009, Lisboa, Portugal, February 5-8, 2009. Revised Selected Papers. pp. 45–58. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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 Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations.

Blog post

Fang, J.: How Do You Sex Dinosaurs? Look at Their Tails, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-do-you-sex-dinosaurs-look-their-tails/

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: U.S. Preparations for an International Conference on Broadcast Satellites. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1983)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thomas, E.M.: Perceptions of educational leaders’ efficacy and leadership capacity upon preliminary administrative credential completion at California State University, Long Beach, (2016)

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

Kang, C., de la MERCED, M.J.: AT&T’s Blockbuster Bid For Time Warner Is in Limbo, (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	Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations
Abbreviation	Quantum Stud. Math. Found.
ISSN (print)	2196-5609
ISSN (online)	2196-5617
Scope