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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society. 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	Download the output style file
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

Vela, C.: Turn Spain’s budget crisis into an opportunity. Nature. 486, 7 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hibberd, J.M., Quick, W.P.: Characteristics of C4 photosynthesis in stems and petioles of C3 flowering plants. Nature. 415, 451–454 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Gómez-Llobregat, J., Buceta, J., Reigada, R.: Interplay of cytoskeletal activity and lipid phase stability in dynamic protein recruitment and clustering. Sci. Rep. 3, 2608 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Béjà, O., Suzuki, M.T., Heidelberg, J.F., Nelson, W.C., Preston, C.M., Hamada, T., Eisen, J.A., Fraser, C.M., DeLong, E.F.: Unsuspected diversity among marine aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs. Nature. 415, 630–633 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pachamanova, D.A., Fabozzi, F.J.: Portfolio Construction and Analytics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Lyons, R.E., Rayner, S.J. eds: The Academic Book of the Future. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Truszczyński, M.: Nonmonotonic Logics and Their Algebraic Foundations. In: Ésik, Z. (ed.) Computer Science Logic: 20th International Workshop, CSL 2006, 15th Annual Conference of the EACSL, Szeged, Hungary, September 25-29, 2006. Proceedings. pp. 58–71. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

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 the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Evolved Sense of Smell Turned Certain Fruit Flies Into Vegetarians, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/evolved-sense-smell-turned-certain-fruit-flies-vegetarians/

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: Charter Schools: Oversight Practices in the District of Columbia. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Quick, T.D.: Faith-based charter school success at education ground zero, (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

Mazzetti, M., Kulish, N., Drew, C., Kovaleski, S.F., Naylor, S.D., Ismay, J.: The Secret History of SEAL Team 6, (2015)

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 the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society
Abbreviation	Bull. Malays. Math. Sci. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0126-6705
ISSN (online)	2180-4206
Scope	General Mathematics