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

Jackson, C.M.: Archaeology. Glassmaking in Bronze-Age Egypt. Science. 308, 1750–1752 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

van Oers, N.S.C., Chen, Z.J.: Cell biology. Kinasing and clipping down the NF-kappa B trail. Science. 308, 65–66 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wellman, C.H., Osterloff, P.L., Mohiuddin, U.: Fragments of the earliest land plants. Nature. 425, 282–285 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pimenta, B.V.S., Haddad, C.F.B., Nascimento, L.B., Cruz, C.A.G., Pombal, J.P., Jr: Comment on “Status and trends of amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide.” Science. 309, 1999; author reply 1999 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fleming, P., Lee, R.: Orthodontic Functional Appliances. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2016)

An edited book

Junk, W.J., Piedade, M.T.F., Wittmann, F., Schöngart, J., Parolin, P. eds: Amazonian Floodplain Forests: Ecophysiology, Biodiversity and Sustainable Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Becher, T., Broggio, A., Ferroglia, A.: Generalization to QCD. In: Broggio, A. and Ferroglia, A. (eds.) Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective Theory. pp. 35–56. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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

Andrews, R.: Watch A River Full Of Methane Get Set On Fire

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: Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service: Pseudorabies in Swine and Payment of Indemnity. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maddirala, R.R.: Secure file transfers using mobile device, (2010)

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

Dailey, M.: The Arts Fall Preview Is About to Drop, (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

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