How to format your references using the Research in Mathematics Education citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Mathematics Education. 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

Aldhous, P. (2000). Global warming could be bad news for Arctic ozone layer. Nature, 404(6778), 531.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hiiragi, T., & Solter, D. (2004). First cleavage plane of the mouse egg is not predetermined but defined by the topology of the two apposing pronuclei. Nature, 430(6997), 360–364.

A journal article with 3 authors

Berton, O., Hahn, C.-G., & Thase, M. E. (2012). Are we getting closer to valid translational models for major depression? Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 75–79.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Hou, L., Pan, X., Guo, Q., & Liu, J.-G. (2014). Memory effect of the online user preference. Scientific Reports, 4, 6560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schulze, V. (2005). Modern Mechanical Surface Treatment. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Canova, F., & Poletto, L. (Eds.). (2015). Optical Technologies for Extreme-Ultraviolet and Soft X-ray Coherent Sources (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 197). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Davis, B., Iqbal, A. A., Funk, A., Tablan, V., Bontcheva, K., Cunningham, H., & Handschuh, S. (2008). RoundTrip Ontology Authoring. In A. Sheth, S. Staab, M. Dean, M. Paolucci, D. Maynard, T. Finin, & K. Thirunarayan (Eds.), The Semantic Web - ISWC 2008: 7th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 26-30, 2008. Proceedings (pp. 50–65). Springer.

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 Research in Mathematics Education.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, January 10). We Now Know What Earth’s Inner Core Is Made Of. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (1979). Decision To Close the Sacramento Loan Guaranty Office and Planned Study of Other Loan Guaranty Operations (HRD-80-16). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Saxena, M. (2010). Learner analysis framework for globalized e-learning [Doctoral dissertation]. Capella University.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2015, November 7). Iceman Comes Out. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Aldhous, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Aldhous, 2000; Hiiragi & Solter, 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Hiiragi & Solter, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Hou et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Research in Mathematics Education
Abbreviation	Res. Math. Educ.
ISSN (print)	1479-4802
ISSN (online)	1754-0178
Scope	General Mathematics Education