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

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

Blaxter, M.: Genetics. Revealing the dark matter of the genome. Science. 330, 1758–1759 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Weber, T.S., Deutsch, C.: Ocean nutrient ratios governed by plankton biogeography. Nature. 467, 550–554 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Morales, R., Di Matteo, T., Aste, T.: Dependency structure and scaling properties of financial time series are related. Sci. Rep. 4, 4589 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gilbert, D.A., Zimanyi, G.T., Dumas, R.K., Winklhofer, M., Gomez, A., Eibagi, N., Vicent, J.L., Liu, K.: Quantitative decoding of interactions in tunable nanomagnet arrays using first order reversal curves. Sci. Rep. 4, 4204 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Purkis, S., Klemas, V.: Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, West Sussex, UK (2011)

An edited book

Burger, W.: Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Introduction using Java. Springer, London (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Pinsent, A.: Aquinas and the Second Person in the Formation of Virtues. In: Mooney, T.B. and Nowacki, M. (eds.) Aquinas, Education and the East. pp. 47–71. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2013)

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 Mathematics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Three Baby Exoplanets Have Been Imaged Directly, https://www.iflscience.com/space/three-baby-exoplanets-have-been-imaged-directly/

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: University Finances: Research Revenues and Expenditures. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1986)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Alsari, F.: Training needs analysis for women in educational leadership in Saudi Arabia, (2015)

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

Saslow, L.: Nassau Has $100 Million for Open Space, (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 Mathematics
Abbreviation	Vietnam J. Math.
ISSN (print)	2305-221X
ISSN (online)	2305-2228
Scope	General Mathematics