How to format your references using the Journal of the Nigerian Mathematical Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Nigerian Mathematical 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	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

[1]

Hilser VJ. Biochemistry. An ensemble view of allostery. Science 2010;327:653–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brewer PG, Peltzer ET. OCEANS. Limits to marine life. Science 2009;324:347–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kaina N, Fink M, Lerosey G. Composite media mixing Bragg and local resonances for highly attenuating and broad bandgaps. Sci Rep 2013;3:3240.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu X-W, Chen J-J, Huang Y-X, Sun X-F, Sheng G-P, Li D-B, et al. Experimental and theoretical demonstrations for the mechanism behind enhanced microbial electron transfer by CNT network. Sci Rep 2014;4:3732.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Anderson JB. Bandwidth Efficient Coding. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Zuber-Skerritt O. Lifelong Action Learning for Community Development: Learning and Development for a Better World. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Schmauder S, Mishnaevsky L Jr. Complex, Graded and Interpenetrating Microstructures. In: Mishnaevsky L, editor. Micromechanics and Nanosimulation of Metals and Composites: Advanced Methods and Theoretical Concepts, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 213–310.

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 Journal of the Nigerian Mathematical Society.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. How Oil Spills From Wartime Sea Battles Nearly Wiped Out Famous Welsh Guillemots. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Questions Designed To Aid Managers and Auditors in Assessing the ADP Planning Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

King GD. Public Works Directors’ Perceptions of the Effects of Stakeholders on Environmental Policies in California Cities. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 2010.

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

[1]

Williams J. Hamilton Minus Music. New York Times 2017:BR4.

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	Journal of the Nigerian Mathematical Society
Abbreviation	J. Nigerian Math. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0189-8965
Scope