How to format your references using the Afrika Matematika citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Afrika Matematika. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Relman, D.A.: Microbiology. Undernutrition--looking within for answers. Science. 339, 530–532 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Sajish, M., Schimmel, P.: A human tRNA synthetase is a potent PARP1-activating effector target for resveratrol. Nature. 519, 370–373 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Loeffler, J.M., Nelson, D., Fischetti, V.A.: Rapid killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae with a bacteriophage cell wall hydrolase. Science. 294, 2170–2172 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chini, R., Hoffmeister, V., Kimeswenger, S., Nielbock, M., Nürnberger, D., Schmidtobreick, L., Sterzik, M.: The formation of a massive protostar through the disk accretion of gas. Nature. 429, 155–157 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boddy, R., Smith, G.: Effective Experimentation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2010)

An edited book

Korb, K., Randall, M., Hendtlass, T. eds: Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology: 4th Australian Conference, ACAL 2009, Melbourne, Australia, December 1-4, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Biygautane, M., Al-Taee, M.: The Role of Political Leadership in Driving Citizens’ Engagement Through Social Media: The Case of Dubai’s Public Sector. In: Nepal, S., Paris, C., and Georgakopoulos, D. (eds.) Social Media for Government Services. pp. 75–95. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Afrika Matematika.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: How the Jesus Lizard Evolved, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-jesus-lizard-evolved/

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: Screening Partnership Program: Improved Cost Estimates Can Enhance Program Decision Making. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2015)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lee, A.M.: Examining the socially responsible leadership development outcomes of study abroad experiences for college seniors, (2010)

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

Yablonsky, L.: Clay Mates, (2010)

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	Afrika Matematika
Abbreviation	Afr. Mat.
ISSN (print)	1012-9405
ISSN (online)	2190-7668
Scope	General Mathematics