How to format your references using the ZDM citation style

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

O’Malley, B. W. (2006). Molecular biology. Little molecules with big goals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 313(5794), 1749–1750.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ardejani, M. S., & Orner, B. P. (2013). Materials science. Obey the peptide assembly rules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6132), 561–562.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cronin, T. W., Caldwell, R. L., & Marshall, J. (2001). Sensory adaptation. Tunable colour vision in a mantis shrimp. Nature, 411(6837), 547–548.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Capone, M., Fabrizio, M., Castellani, C., & Tosatti, E. (2002). Strongly correlated superconductivity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5577), 2364–2366.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mastro, M. (2013). Financial Derivative and Energy Market Valuation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chan, A. H. S., & Ao, S.-I. (Eds.). (2008). Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (Vol. 5). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Jou, J. Y. H., Fu, L. F., & Lin, A. Y. (2015). The Ethical Decision Making of Marketing Professionals in Taiwan. In J.-C. Chebat & A. B. Oumlil (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1998 Multicultural Marketing Conference (pp. 24–29). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 ZDM.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, July 28). Watch The Delta IV Rocket Launch Live. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-delta-iv-rocket-launch-live/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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). Manufacturing Extension Partnership: Most Federal Spending Directly Supports Work with Manufacturers, but Distribution Could Be Improved (No. GAO-14-317). Washington, DC: 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

Brigida, M. D. (2009). Target stock price runup prior to acquisitions (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Koblin, J. (2017, February 1). Hall Quits ‘Today’ and NBC With Kelly Waiting Offstage. New York Times, p. B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Malley 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Ardejani and Orner 2013; O’Malley 2006).

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

Two authors: (Ardejani and Orner 2013)
Three or more authors: (Capone et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	ZDM
Abbreviation	ZDM
ISSN (print)	1863-9690
ISSN (online)	1863-9704
Scope	General Mathematics Education