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

Street, R.A.: Materials science. Unraveling charge transport in conjugated polymers. Science. 341, 1072–1073 (2013)

A journal article with 2 authors

Cohen, J., Stewart, I.: Where are the dolphins? Nature. 409, 1119–1122 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Polyak, V., Hill, C., Asmerom, Y.: Age and evolution of the Grand Canyon revealed by U-Pb dating of water table-type speleothems. Science. 319, 1377–1380 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nazirzadeh, M.A., Atar, F.B., Turgut, B.B., Okyay, A.K.: Random sized plasmonic nanoantennas on Silicon for low-cost broad-band near-infrared photodetection. Sci. Rep. 4, 7103 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paladino, B.: Corporate Performance Management Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013)

An edited book

Yoshida, H., Cai, W. eds: Virtual Colonoscopy and Abdominal Imaging. Computational Challenges and Clinical Opportunities: Second International Workshop, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2010, Beijing, China, September 20, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Rowland, J.H.: Survivorship Research: Past, Present, and Future. In: Ganz, P.A. (ed.) Cancer Survivorship: Today and Tomorrow. pp. 28–42. Springer, New York, NY (2007)

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, E.: Slow Motion Video: Underwater Bullet, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/slow-motion-video-underwater-bullet/

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: Aircraft Maintenance: FAA Needs to Follow Through on Plans to Ensure the Safety of Aging Aircraft. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Curry, M.: Students’ perceptions of entrepreneurship at a historically black university in central Mississippi, (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

Pilon, M.: At the End, the Telltale Runners’ Bags, (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	Afrika Matematika
Abbreviation	Afr. Mat.
ISSN (print)	1012-9405
ISSN (online)	2190-7668
Scope	General Mathematics

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