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

Baumann, P.: Journal club. A molecular biologist explores ways to revolutionize agriculture. Nature. 462, 547 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher, C.R., Girguis, P.: Microbiology. A proteomic snapshot of life at a vent. Science. 315, 198–199 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Paradise, J., Andrews, L., Holbrook, T.: Intellectual property. Patents on human genes: an analysis of scope and claims. Science. 307, 1566–1567 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Muchnik, L., Pei, S., Parra, L.C., Reis, S.D.S., Andrade, J.S., Jr, Havlin, S., Makse, H.A.: Origins of power-law degree distribution in the heterogeneity of human activity in social networks. Sci. Rep. 3, 1783 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gauthier, M., Andreff, N., Dombre, E.: Intracorporeal Robotics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA (2014)

An edited book

Deutsch, A., Brusch, L., Byrne, H., Vries, G. de, Herzel, H. eds: Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Volume I: Cellular Biophysics, Regulatory Networks, Development, Biomedicine, and Data Analysis. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Shibuya, S., Kawaguchi, T.: Advanced Laboratory Stress-Strain and Strength Testing of Geomaterials in Geotechnical Engineering Practice. In: Ling, H.I., Callisto, L., Leshchinsky, D., and Koseki, J. (eds.) Soil Stress-Strain Behavior: Measurement, Modeling and Analysis: A Collection of Papers of the Geotechnical Symposium in Rome, March 16–17, 2006. pp. 191–199. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (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 Bulletin of the Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Society.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: X-Ray Echo Gives Us Clues About Dormant Black Holes, https://www.iflscience.com/space/xray-echo-gives-us-clues-about-dormant-black-holes/

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: FAA Safety Inspector Training Survey Data, an E-supplement to GAO-05-728. 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

Simmons, C.: Correlates and predictors of cognitive complexity among counseling and social work students in graduate training programs, (2008)

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

Murphy, M.J.O.: Friday File, (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