How to format your references using the Afrika Matematika citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Afrika Matematika. 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

Dajani, R.: How women scientists fare in the Arab world. Nature. 491, 9 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wentz, F.J., Ricciardulli, L.: Comment on “Global trends in wind speed and wave height.” Science. 334, 905; author reply 905 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Shi, F., Li, J., Wilson, R.J.S.: A tree-ring reconstruction of the South Asian summer monsoon index over the past millennium. Sci. Rep. 4, 6739 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liang, Y.-L., Khoshouei, M., Deganutti, G., Glukhova, A., Koole, C., Peat, T.S., Radjainia, M., Plitzko, J.M., Baumeister, W., Miller, L.J., Hay, D.L., Christopoulos, A., Reynolds, C.A., Wootten, D., Sexton, P.M.: Cryo-EM structure of the active, Gs-protein complexed, human CGRP receptor. Nature. 561, 492–497 (2018)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S.M.: The Controller’s Function. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Orešič, M., Vidal-Puig, A. eds: A Systems Biology Approach to Study Metabolic Syndrome. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Nipkow, T., Klein, G.: Logic and Proof Beyond Equality. In: Klein, G. (ed.) Concrete Semantics: With Isabelle/HOL. pp. 37–52. Springer International Publishing, Cham (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 Afrika Matematika.

Blog post

Andrew, D.: Gut Bacteria Plays A Role In Long-Term Weight Gain, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/gut-bacteria-plays-a-role-in-longterm-weight-gain/

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: Social Security Administration: Effective Information Technology Management Essential for Data Center Initiative. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2009)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reich, L.M.: Adapted physical education teachers’ attitudes towards their students with hidden and visible disabilities, (2012)

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

Sisario, B.: Migos Tops Chart With ‘Culture,’ (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	Afrika Matematika
Abbreviation	Afr. Mat.
ISSN (print)	1012-9405
ISSN (online)	2190-7668
Scope	General Mathematics