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

Koenig, R.: EASTERN EUROPE: Science Survives in Breakaway States. Science. 290, 692–693 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kedar, S., Webb, F.H.: Ocean science. The ocean’s seismic hum. Science. 307, 682–683 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharam, G.J., Sinclair, A.R.E., Turkington, R.: Serengeti birds maintain forests by inhibiting seed predators. Science. 325, 51 (2009)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhou, Z., Luo, M.J., Straesser, K., Katahira, J., Hurt, E., Reed, R.: The protein Aly links pre-messenger-RNA splicing to nuclear export in metazoans. Nature. 407, 401–405 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meyr, H., Moeneclaey, M., Fechtel, S.A.: Digital Communication Receivers: Synchronization, Channel Estimation, and Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, USA (2001)

An edited book

Chu, J.: Physics and Properties of Narrow Gap Semiconductors. Springer, New York, NY (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Altizer, T.J.J.: To Lissa McCullough (June 13, 1997). In: Grimshaw, M. (ed.) This Silence Must Now Speak: Letters of Thomas J. J. Altizer, 1995–2015. pp. 19–23. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY (2016)

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

Hale, T.: Fishermen Find Rare Species Of Giant Squid On Hawaiian Coast, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fishermen-find-rare-species-giant-squid-hawaiian-coast/

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: Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Develop and Manage Information Technology to Meet the Government’s Needs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2016)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Valdez, K.: Taking a closer look at the mental health services act of 2004: A policy analysis, (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

Oestreich, J.R.: A Man on a Mission, and Then Another, (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