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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Gibson, S.: Journal club. An organic chemist highlights an ingenious way to make radiotracers. Nature. 457, 515 (2009)
A journal article with 2 authors
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Lyons, T.W., Reinhard, C.T.: Early Earth: Oxygen for heavy-metal fans. Nature. 461, 179–181 (2009)
A journal article with 3 authors
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Khatiwala, S., Primeau, F., Hall, T.: Reconstruction of the history of anthropogenic CO(2) concentrations in the ocean. Nature. 462, 346–349 (2009)
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Silva, G.A., Czeisler, C., Niece, K.L., Beniash, E., Harrington, D.A., Kessler, J.A., Stupp, S.I.: Selective differentiation of neural progenitor cells by high-epitope density nanofibers. Science. 303, 1352–1355 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Lindahl, D.: Emerging Real Estate Markets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2007)
An edited book
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Zhang, Z., Siekmann, J. eds: Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: Second International Conference, KSEM 2007, Melbourne, Australia, November 28-30, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)
A chapter in an edited book
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Xiao, G., Madabhushi, A.: Aggregated Distance Metric Learning (ADM) for Image Classification in Presence of Limited Training Data. In: Fichtinger, G., Martel, A., and Peters, T. (eds.) Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2011: 14th International Conference, Toronto, Canada, September 18-22, 2011, Proceedings, Part III. pp. 33–40. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

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
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Evans, K.: What 5 Popular Drugs Including Weed And Booze Do To Your Body And Brain, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-5-popular-drugs-including-weed-and-booze-do-to-your-body-and-brain/

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
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Government Accountability Office: Department of Education: Multiple, Nonintegrated Systems Hamper Management of Student Financial Aid Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Fino, M.: Fruit and vegetable intake and exercise practices of college students of color, (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
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Vecsey, G.: N.H.L. Is Playing on Its Home Ice, (2011)

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 titleActa Mathematica Vietnamica
AbbreviationActa Math. Vietnam.
ISSN (print)0251-4184
ISSN (online)2315-4144
ScopeGeneral Mathematics

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