How to format your references using the Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences. 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

Ward, C.D.: Bordeaux mixture. Nature. 404, 337 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Jacak, B.V., Müller, B.: The exploration of hot nuclear matter. Science. 337, 310–314 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Rogina, B., Helfand, S.L., Frankel, S.: Longevity regulation by Drosophila Rpd3 deacetylase and caloric restriction. Science. 298, 1745 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gavrilova, O., Marcus-Samuels, B., Leon, L.R., Vinson, C., Reitman, M.L.: Leptin and diabetes in lipoatrophic mice. Nature. 403, 850; discussion 850-1 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Windom, C.A., Sr., Gaidhani, H., Fontana, A.: Virtualizing. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA (2010)

An edited book

Yu, H.: Design Exploration of Emerging Nano-scale Non-volatile Memory. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Das, A., Roy, J., Chakrabarti, S.: Are We ‘Learning By Doing’? In: Roy, J. and Chakraborti, S. (eds.) Socio-Economic Analysis of Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater in West Bengal. pp. 19–20. Springer, Singapore (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 Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Stinky Caterpillar Looks Like a Snake With a Fleshy, Forked Tongue, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stinky-caterpillar-looks-snake-fleshy-forked-tongue/

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: Telecommunications: Challenges to Assessing and Improving Telecommunications for Native Americans on Tribal Lands. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2006)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Blackmar, M.D.: Wagner domesticated, Wagner democratized: The parlor reception of Musikdrama, (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

Marx, L.: Christina Matthews, Benjamin Macfarland III, (2009)

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	Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences
Abbreviation	Bull. Math. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1664-3607
ISSN (online)	1664-3615
Scope	General Mathematics