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

Livio, M.: Astrophysical spouts: the jet set. Nature. 417, 125 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Kioussis, D., Georgopoulos, K.: Epigenetic flexibility underlying lineage choices in the adaptive immune system. Science. 317, 620–622 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Franzoni, C., Scellato, G., Stephan, P.: Science policy. Changing incentives to publish. Science. 333, 702–703 (2011)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Azevedo, C., Sadanandom, A., Kitagawa, K., Freialdenhoven, A., Shirasu, K., Schulze-Lefert, P.: The RAR1 interactor SGT1, an essential component of R gene-triggered disease resistance. Science. 295, 2073–2076 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ji, Z.-G.: Hydrodynamics and Water Quality. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

Yagi, Y., Kang, S.B., Kweon, I.S., Zha, H. eds: Computer Vision – ACCV 2007: 8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Tokyo, Japan, November 18-22, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Jordan, P.: Analysis techniques for aeroacoustics: noise source identification. In: Camussi, R. (ed.) Noise Sources in Turbulent Shear Flows: Fundamentals and Applications. pp. 197–287. Springer, Vienna (2013)

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

Andrew, E.: Why Do Humans Grow So Slowly?, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-do-humans-grow-so-slowly/

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: Examination of the Pricing of a Negotiated Fixed-Price Incentive Contract Awarded on a Noncompetitive Basis. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1977)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Clement, T.E.: The makings of digital modernism: Rereading Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans” and poetry by Elsa von Freytag -Loringhoven, (2009)

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

Wagner, J.: Yankees Ride Out Chapman’s Latest Turbulence and Rebuff the Mets Again, (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	Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences
Abbreviation	Bull. Math. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1664-3607
ISSN (online)	1664-3615
Scope	General Mathematics

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