How to format your references using the Vietnam Journal of Computer Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vietnam Journal of Computer Science. 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

Lewin, H.A.: Genetics. It’s a bull’s market. Science. 324, 478–479 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen, D., Savidge, T.: BIOPHYSICS. Comment on “Extreme electric fields power catalysis in the active site of ketosteroid isomerase.” Science. 349, 936 (2015)

A journal article with 3 authors

Korkhov, V.M., Mireku, S.A., Locher, K.P.: Structure of AMP-PNP-bound vitamin B12 transporter BtuCD-F. Nature. 490, 367–372 (2012)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Marlovits, T.C., Kubori, T., Sukhan, A., Thomas, D.R., Galán, J.E., Unger, V.M.: Structural insights into the assembly of the type III secretion needle complex. Science. 306, 1040–1042 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Safonov, V.O.: Using Aspect-Oriented Programming for Trustworthy Software Development. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2007)

An edited book

Berkowitz, B.: Contaminant Geochemistry: Interactions and Transport in the Subsurface Environment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Xiao, R., Hu, X.: Corpora and Corpus Tools in Use. In: Hu, X. (ed.) Corpus-Based Studies of Translational Chinese in English-Chinese Translation. pp. 37–66. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2015)

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 Vietnam Journal of Computer Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: “Shock And Kill” Approach Cures Mice Of HIV In World First

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: Review of the Office of Education’s Basic Educational Opportunity Grant Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1976)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mikhailik, Y.: Longing Limned, (2013)

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

Vecsey, G.: For Mets, Gloom and Doom Instead of Sunshine and Smiles, (2010)

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	Vietnam Journal of Computer Science
Abbreviation	Vietnam J. Comput. Sci.
ISSN (print)	2196-8888
ISSN (online)	2196-8896
Scope

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