How to format your references using the Teaching Mathematics and its Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Teaching Mathematics and its Applications. 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	Download the output style file
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

Smith, G. (2011) Willard Boyle (1924-2011). Nature, 474, 37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Calsbeek, R. & Cox, R.M. (2010) Experimentally assessing the relative importance of predation and competition as agents of selection. Nature, 465, 613–616.

A journal article with 3 authors

Titus, S.L., Wells, J.A., & Rhoades, L.J. (2008) Repairing research integrity. Nature, 453, 980–982.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mazmanian, S.K., Skaar, E.P., Gaspar, A.H., Humayun, M., Gornicki, P., Jelenska, J., Joachmiak, A., Missiakas, D.M., & Schneewind, O. (2003) Passage of heme-iron across the envelope of Staphylococcus aureus. Science, 299, 906–909.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Corrigan, P.W., Roe, D., & Tsang, H.W.H. (2011) Challenging the Stigma of Mental Illness. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Saaty, T.L. (2013) Decision Making with the Analytic Network Process: Economic, Political, Social and Technological Applications with Benefits, Opportunities, Costs and Risks, vol. 195, 2nd ed. 2013 ed. , International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Polat, A. (2014) A Review of the Geodynamic Significance of Hornblende-Bearing Ultramafic Rocks in the Mesoarchean Fiskenæsset Complex, SW Greenland. Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life, Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences (Dilek, Y. & Furnes, H. eds). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 127–147.

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 Teaching Mathematics and its Applications.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2013) India Successfully Launches First Mission To Mars. 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 (1998) Balancing Flexibility and Accountability: Grant Program Design in Education and Other Areas ( No. T-GGD/HEHS-98-94). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lieberman, D.S. (2017) “Stroke Your Thoroughbreds and Kick Your Donkeys”: Power and the Secondary Administrative Distribution of Teaching Assignments (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Walsh, M.W. (2015) Santander to Pay $6.4 Million to Islanders in Puerto Rico Bond Settlement. New York Times, B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smith, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Calsbeek & Cox, 2010; Smith, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Calsbeek & Cox, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Mazmanian et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Teaching Mathematics and its Applications
ISSN (print)	0268-3679
ISSN (online)	1471-6976
Scope	General Mathematics Education