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

Frankel, M. S. (2012). Regulating the boundaries of dual-use research. Science (New York, N.Y.), 336(6088), 1523–1525.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martin, W., & Koonin, E. V. (2006). Introns and the origin of nucleus-cytosol compartmentalization. Nature, 440(7080), 41–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeon, S.-M., Chandel, N. S., & Hay, N. (2012). AMPK regulates NADPH homeostasis to promote tumour cell survival during energy stress. Nature, 485(7400), 661–665.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Vu, D., Szöke, S., Wiwie, C., Baumbach, J., Cardinali, G., Röttger, R., & Robert, V. (2014). Massive fungal biodiversity data re-annotation with multi-level clustering. Scientific Reports, 4, 6837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marks, K. H., Robbins, L. E., Fernández, G., Funkhouser, J. P., & Williams, D. L. (2009). The Handbook of Financing Growth. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ravenel, J. G. (Ed.). (2013). Lung Cancer Imaging. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jung, S. I., & Kim, B. (2012). Illustrations. In S. H. Kim (Ed.), Radiology Illustrated: Gynecologic Imaging (pp. 35–53). 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

Taub, B. (2016, October 11). Exercise Massively Increases Life Expectancy Of Brain-Damaged Mice. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/exercise-massively-increases-life-expectancy-of-braindamaged-mice/

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. (2014). School Lunch: Implementing Nutrition Changes Was Challenging and Clarification of Oversight Requirements Is Needed (GAO-14-104). 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

Chlarson-Varner, G. (2010). Falls among older adults 65 years and older [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Lee, L. (2013, August 25). Not at First Sight, or Even the First Dozen. New York Times, ST12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frankel, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Frankel, 2012; Martin & Koonin, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Martin & Koonin, 2006)
Three authors: (Jeon et al., 2012)
6 or more authors: (Vu 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

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