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

Smetacek, V.: A watery arms race. Nature. 411, 745 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Greene, M.J., Gordon, D.M.: Social insects: Cuticular hydrocarbons inform task decisions. Nature. 423, 32 (2003)

A journal article with 3 authors

Fu, Y., Xu, Y., Chen, H.: Additional modes in a waveguide system of zero-index-metamaterials with defects. Sci. Rep. 4, 6428 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hickenboth, C.R., Moore, J.S., White, S.R., Sottos, N.R., Baudry, J., Wilson, S.R.: Biasing reaction pathways with mechanical force. Nature. 446, 423–427 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans, R.: Seven Secrets of the Savvy School Leader. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, USA (2010)

An edited book

Chapman, B.M., Gropp, W.D., Kumaran, K., Müller, M.S. eds: OpenMP in the Petascale Era: 7th International Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2011, Chicago, IL, USA, June 13-15, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Sosík, P.: Active Membranes, Proteins on Membranes, Tissue P Systems: Complexity-Related Issues and Challenges. In: Alhazov, A., Cojocaru, S., Gheorghe, M., Rogozhin, Y., Rozenberg, G., and Salomaa, A. (eds.) Membrane Computing: 14th International Conference, CMC 2013, Chişinău, Republic of Moldova, August 20-23, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 40–55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

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.: Good Riddance To Thailand’s Infamous ‘Tiger Temple’

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: International Aviation: Implications of Ratifying Montreal Aviation Protocol No. 3. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1990)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yuan, J.: Membrane Protein Insertion in Bacteria by the YidC and Sec Pathway, (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

Leland, J.: Acting on Broadway, Sleeping on His Couch, (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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