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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Marder SR. Perspective: Retreat from the radical. Nature 2014;508:S18.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen F, Krasnow MA. Progenitor outgrowth from the niche in Drosophila trachea is guided by FGF from decaying branches. Science 2014;343:186–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hong Y, Wang Z, Jin X. Sulfuric acid intercalated graphite oxide for graphene preparation. Sci Rep 2013;3:3439.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Archibald JD, Clemens WA, Padian K, Rowe T, Macleod N, Barrett PM, et al. Cretaceous extinctions: multiple causes. Science 2010;328:973; author reply 975-6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Joseph G. Doing Physics with Scientific Notebook. The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Greenbaum E, Zhou D, editors. Implantable Neural Prostheses 1: Devices and Applications. New York, NY: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gomolińska A. Rough Approximation Based on Weak q-RIFs. In: Peters JF, Skowron A, Wolski M, Chakraborty MK, Wu W-Z, editors. Transactions on Rough Sets X, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 117–35.

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]

Luntz S. First Quantum Coherence In Biological Molecule. IFLScience 2015.

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. Earth Observing System: Cost and Research Issues. 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

[1]

Hariharan SB. The Structure of the Blue Whirl: A Soot-Free Reacting Vortex Phenomenon. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2017.

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]

Brantley B. Delightful in Their Depravity. New York Times 2017:C1.

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