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

Berglund, J.: Orthopaedics: Structural support. Nature. 480, S56-7 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

DellaPenna, D., Last, R.L.: Genome-enabled approaches shed new light on plant metabolism. Science. 320, 479–481 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Reina, J.H., Susa, C.E., Fanchini, F.F.: Extracting information from qubit-environment correlations. Sci. Rep. 4, 7443 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Joye, S.B., Leifer, I., MacDonald, I.R., Chanton, J.P., Meile, C.D., Teske, A.P., Kostka, J.E., Chistoserdova, L., Coffin, R., Hollander, D., Kastner, M., Montoya, J.P., Rehder, G., Solomon, E., Treude, T., Villareal, T.A.: Comment on “A persistent oxygen anomaly reveals the fate of spilled methane in the deep Gulf of Mexico.” Science. 332, 1033; author reply 1033 (2011)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kobilinsky, L., Liotti, T.F., Oeser-Sweat, J.: DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2004)

An edited book

Onishchik, A.L.: Projective and Cayley-Klein Geometries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

A chapter in an edited book

Muñoz, J.J., Rabiei, N., Lyamin, A., Huerta, A.: Computation of Bounds for Anchor Problems in Limit Analysis and Decomposition Techniques. In: Spiliopoulos, K. and Weichert, D. (eds.) Direct Methods for Limit States in Structures and Materials. pp. 79–99. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2014)

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

Andrew, E.: Physicists Plan To Put A Microbe In Two Places At Once, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/schrodingers-microbe/

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: K-12 Education: Education Needs to Improve Oversight of Its 21st Century Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2017)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Van Name, J.: Boolean Partition Algebras, (2013)

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

Vecsey, G.: A Roof Is Planned, but It’s a Waiting Game for Fans and Players, (2013)

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