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]

Sunda WG. Oceans. Iron and the carbon pump. Science 2010;327:654–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shen B, Goodman HM. Uridine addition after microRNA-directed cleavage. Science 2004;306:997.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Brockmann D, Hufnagel L, Geisel T. The scaling laws of human travel. Nature 2006;439:462–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Polizzotto ML, Kocar BD, Benner SG, Sampson M, Fendorf S. Near-surface wetland sediments as a source of arsenic release to ground water in Asia. Nature 2008;454:505–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Neuber A, Nuttall T. Diagnostic Techniques in Veterinary Dermatology. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Öztürk M, Ashraf M, Aksoy A, Ahmad MSA, Hakeem KR, editors. Plants, Pollutants and Remediation. 1st ed. 2015. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Morishita E. Schwartz-Christoffel Panel Method Improvements and Applications. In: Mastorakis N, Bulucea A, Tsekouras G, editors. Computational Problems in Science and Engineering, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 109–28.

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

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Andrews R. No, Cat Poop Parasites Don’t Give You Mental Illnesses. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/no-cat-poop-parasites-mental-illnesses/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. FCC: Flexible Service Offerings in the Commercial Mobile Radio Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Skinner M. Enamel -dentine junction morphology of extant hominoid and fossil hominin lower molars. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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

[1]

Koblin J. Two Asian-American Actors in ‘Hawaii Five-0’ Depart. New York Times 2017:B5.

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