How to format your references using the Vietnam Journal of Computer Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vietnam Journal of Computer Science. 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

Ladegaard Skov, A.: Materials science: Like cartilage, but simpler. Nature. 517, 25–26 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Nogués-Bravo, D., Rahbek, C.: Ecology. Communities under climate change. Science. 334, 1070–1071 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Giribet, G., Edgecombe, G.D., Wheeler, W.C.: Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology. Nature. 413, 157–161 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kroutvar, M., Ducommun, Y., Heiss, D., Bichler, M., Schuh, D., Abstreiter, G., Finley, J.J.: Optically programmable electron spin memory using semiconductor quantum dots. Nature. 432, 81–84 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety: Guidelines for Defining Process Safety Competency Requirements. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Bičák, J., Ledvinka, T. eds: General Relativity, Cosmology and Astrophysics: Perspectives 100 years after Einstein’s stay in Prague. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Garion, S.: Beauville Surfaces and Probabilistic Group Theory. In: Bauer, I., Garion, S., and Vdovina, A. (eds.) Beauville Surfaces and Groups. pp. 63–78. 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 Vietnam Journal of Computer Science.

Blog post

Hale, T.: Diego The Giant Tortoise Helps Save His Species By Fathering 800 Offspring, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/diego-the-giant-tortoise-helps-save-his-species-by-fathering-800-offspring/

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: Secondary Market Activities of the Student Loan Marketing Association. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1984)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bustillo, M.F.: Heart and Art: Post-adoption program: A grant proposal, (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

Feeney, K.: Hidden Treasures Of the Food Industry, (2007)

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	Vietnam Journal of Computer Science
Abbreviation	Vietnam J. Comput. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2196-8888
ISSN (online)	2196-8896
Scope