How to format your references using the Research in the Mathematical Sciences citation style

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

De Libero, G.: Immunology. The Robin Hood of antigen presentation. Science. 303, 485–487 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Frey, B.J., Dueck, D.: Clustering by passing messages between data points. Science. 315, 972–976 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Cwiok, S., Heenen, P.-H., Nazarewicz, W.: Shape coexistence and triaxiality in the superheavy nuclei. Nature. 433, 705–709 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Alvarez-Rodriguez, U., Sanz, M., Lamata, L., Solano, E.: Biomimetic cloning of quantum observables. Sci. Rep. 4, 4910 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levitin, V.: High Temperature Strain of Metals and Alloys. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2005)

An edited book

Jobbágy, Á. ed: 5th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering: 14–18 September 2011, Budapest, Hungary. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Dahlke, C., Bork, H.-R.: Soil Erosion and Soil Organic Carbon Storage on the Chinese Loess Plateau. In: Lal, R., Lorenz, K., Hüttl, R.F., Schneider, B.U., and von Braun, J. (eds.) Recarbonization of the Biosphere: Ecosystems and the Global Carbon Cycle. pp. 83–98. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2012)

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 the Mathematical Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: How Understanding Breast Cancer At A Molecular Level Is Revolutionising Our Thinking, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-understanding-breast-cancer-molecular-level-revolutionising-our-thinking/

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: DOT Headquarters: Unclear Whether Union Station Site Is Best Location. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1992)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Szurgyi, A.A.: Leadership competencies required of Army officers to counter the Improvised Explosive Device threat, (2012)

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

Greenhouse, L.: Two Convicts From Abroad Win Hearing By Justices, (2005)

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	Research in the Mathematical Sciences
Abbreviation	Res. Math. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2197-9847
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