How to format your references using the The Ramanujan Journal citation style

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

Smaglik, P.: Biologists officially welcome plan. Nature. 412, 665 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedrich, R.W., Laurent, G.: Dynamic optimization of odor representations by slow temporal patterning of mitral cell activity. Science. 291, 889–894 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Rompolas, P., Mesa, K.R., Greco, V.: Spatial organization within a niche as a determinant of stem-cell fate. Nature. 502, 513–518 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Juodkazis, S., Mukai, N., Wakaki, R., Yamaguchi, A., Matsuo, S., Misawa, H.: Reversible phase transitions in polymer gels induced by radiation forces. Nature. 408, 178–181 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kaul, S., Ali, F., Janakiram, S., Wattenström, B.: Business Models for Sustainable Telecoms Growth in Developing Economies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2008)

An edited book

Mossakowski, T., Kreowski, H.-J. eds: Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques: 20th International Workshop, WADT 2010, Etelsen, Germany, July 1-4, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Moore, E., Likarish, D.: A Cyber Security Multi Agency Collaboration for Rapid Response that Uses AGILE Methods on an Education Infrastructure. In: Bishop, M., Miloslavskaya, N., and Theocharidou, M. (eds.) Information Security Education Across the Curriculum: 9th IFIP WG 11.8 World Conference, WISE 9, Hamburg, Germany, May 26-28, 2015, Proceedings. pp. 41–50. 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 The Ramanujan Journal.

Blog post

Fang, J.: New Finger Device Reads Books To The Blind, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/new-finger-device-reads-books-blind/

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: Costs and Benefits of a Common Strategic Rotary Launcher Should Be Reassessed Before Further Funds Are Available. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1982)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bryant, M.G.: The Development of the Massive Open Online Course Virtual Learning Environment Scale (MVLE) and Model to Measure Satisfaction of MOOC Online Learning Courses in Higher Education: A Mixed Methods Study, (2017)

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

Kelly, C.: Know When to Hold ’em, Know When to Fold ’em, (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	The Ramanujan Journal
Abbreviation	Ramanujan J.
ISSN (print)	1382-4090
ISSN (online)	1572-9303
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory