How to format your references using the Acta Mathematica Vietnamica citation style

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

Roelfsema, P.R.: Neuroscience. Attention--voluntary control of brain cells. Science. 332, 1512–1513 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Payne, J.L., Wagner, A.: The robustness and evolvability of transcription factor binding sites. Science. 343, 875–877 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Krieger, M.J., Billeter, J.B., Keller, L.: Ant-like task allocation and recruitment in cooperative robots. Nature. 406, 992–995 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ahn, J.-H., Kim, H.-S., Lee, K.J., Jeon, S., Kang, S.J., Sun, Y., Nuzzo, R.G., Rogers, J.A.: Heterogeneous three-dimensional electronics by use of printed semiconductor nanomaterials. Science. 314, 1754–1757 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nappi, E., Peskov, V.: Imaging Gaseous Detectors and Their Applications. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2013)

An edited book

Weickert, J., Hein, M., Schiele, B. eds: Pattern Recognition: 35th German Conference, GCPR 2013, Saarbrücken, Germany, September 3-6, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Paneni, F., Cosentino, F.: Environment, Epigenetic Changes, and Cardiovascular Damage. In: Cosentino, F. (ed.) Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: A Guide to Clinical Management. pp. 35–47. 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 Acta Mathematica Vietnamica.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Fistfights May Have Shaped the Faces of Our Ancestors, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fistfights-may-have-shaped-faces-our-ancestors/

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: International Education Assistance: USAID Has Implemented Primary Grade Reading Programs but Has Not Yet Measured Progress toward Its Strategic Goal. 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

Nye, K.M.: Crème de Pêche, (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

Mcbride, M., Blackmon, T., Reid, F., Skinner, B.W.: Don’t Wait For a Perfect Protest, (2017)

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	Acta Mathematica Vietnamica
Abbreviation	Acta Math. Vietnam.
ISSN (print)	0251-4184
ISSN (online)	2315-4144
Scope	General Mathematics