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

Bilham, R.: Lessons from the Haiti earthquake. Nature. 463, 878–879 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Crain, J.N., Pierce, D.T.: End states in one-dimensional atom chains. Science. 307, 703–706 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Pack, A., Shelley, J.M.G., Palme, H.: Chondrules with peculiar REE patterns: implications for solar nebular condensation at high C/O. Science. 303, 997–1000 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Laurance, W.F., Delamônica, P., Laurance, S.G., Vasconcelos, H.L., Lovejoy, T.E.: Rainforest fragmentation kills big trees. Nature. 404, 836 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tostmann, K.-H.: Korrosion. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2005)

An edited book

Marti, U. ed: Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems: Proceedings of the IAG Symposium GGHS2012, October 9-12, 2012, Venice, Italy. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Choi, H., Yeom, K., Choi, Y., Moon, M.: An Approach to Quality Achievement at the Architectural Level: AQUA. In: Gorrieri, R. and Wehrheim, H. (eds.) Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems: 8th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, FMOODS 2006, Bologna, Italy, June 14-16, 2006. Proceedings. pp. 20–32. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2006)

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.: LUX Dark Matter Detector Releases First Results, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/lux-dark-matter-detector-releases-first-results/

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: Freight Railroads: Updated Information on Rates and Other Industry Trends. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2007)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yang, S.J.: Adapting Korean Cinderella Folklore as Fairy Tales for Children, (2014)

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

Crow, K.: Patch of Sunlight May Be Elusive as School Expands, (2001)

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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