How to format your references using the Research in Number Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research in Number Theory. 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

Mitchinson, A.: Climate science: City heat. Nature. 511, 163 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Huang, C., Grant, P.S.: One-step spray processing of high power all-solid-state supercapacitors. Sci. Rep. 3, 2393 (2013)

A journal article with 3 authors

Choi, W.-Y., Giraldez, A.J., Schier, A.F.: Target protectors reveal dampening and balancing of Nodal agonist and antagonist by miR-430. Science. 318, 271–274 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, B., Moshfegh, C., Lin, Z., Albuschies, J., Vogel, V.: Mesenchymal stem cells exploit extracellular matrix as mechanotransducer. Sci. Rep. 3, 2425 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cremona, C.: Structural Performance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2013)

An edited book

de Souza, W. ed: Structures and Organelles in Pathogenic Protists. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Mihara, H., Hayashi, Y., Yamamoto, M.: Performance Evaluation of Fairness between High-Speed TCPs in Wireless Environment. In: Guyot, V. (ed.) Advanced Infocomm Technology: 5th IEEE International Conference, ICAIT 2012, Paris, France, July 25-27, 2012. Revised Papers. pp. 5–15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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 Research in Number Theory.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Iris Scanners Can Now Identify Us From 40 Feet Away

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: Health Care Workforce: Federally Funded Training Programs in Fiscal Year 2012. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2013)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sachdev, N.A.: An Evaluation of the District of Columbia Summer Youth Employment Program, (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

Kenigsberg, B.: Film Series, (2017)

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	Research in Number Theory
Abbreviation	Res. Number Theory
ISSN (online)	2363-9555
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