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

Macilwain, C.: Ticking the right boxes. Nature. 439, 533 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Eisen, J.A., Fraser, C.M.: Phylogenomics: intersection of evolution and genomics. Science. 300, 1706–1707 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Mace, K.A., Pearson, J.C., McGinnis, W.: An epidermal barrier wound repair pathway in Drosophila is mediated by grainy head. Science. 308, 381–385 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mohamed, Y.M., Ghazy, M.A., Sayed, A., Ouf, A., El-Dorry, H., Siam, R.: Isolation and characterization of a heavy metal-resistant, thermophilic esterase from a Red Sea brine pool. Sci. Rep. 3, 3358 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenning, A., Smith, A., Rochovská, A., Świa̧tek, D.: Domesticating Neo-Liberalism. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2010)

An edited book

Leibe, B., Matas, J., Sebe, N., Welling, M. eds: Computer Vision – ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11–14, 2016, Proceedings, Part I. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Scott, J.R., Effenberger, A.J., Hatch, J.J.: Influence of Atmospheric Pressure and Composition on LIBS. In: Musazzi, S. and Perini, U. (eds.) Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Theory and Applications. pp. 91–116. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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

Andrews, R.: Nat Geo’s Travel Photographer of the Year 2016 Contest Winners Capture Breathtaking Images Of Our World, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nat-geos-travel-photographer-of-the-year-2016-contest-winners-capture-breathtaking-images-of-our-world/

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: CEC Sale of Federal Spectrum. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kelleher, A.: Gendered Intent to Turnover Resulting from Workplace Bullying in Nursing and Medical Fields, (2017)

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

Robbins, L.: Despite ‘Sanctuary City’ Policy, Mayor Says New York Complies With U.S. Law, (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