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

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

Njau, J.: Paleontology. Reading Pliocene bones. Science. 336, 46–47 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Capraro, V., Marcelletti, A.: Do good actions inspire good actions in others? Sci. Rep. 4, 7470 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, L., Treisman, A., Pashler, H.: Characterizing the limits of human visual awareness. Science. 317, 823–825 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Spehr, M., Gisselmann, G., Poplawski, A., Riffell, J.A., Wetzel, C.H., Zimmer, R.K., Hatt, H.: Identification of a testicular odorant receptor mediating human sperm chemotaxis. Science. 299, 2054–2058 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yukihara, E.G., McKeever, S.W.S.: Optically Stimulated Luminescence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2011)

An edited book

Di Benedetto, M.-G., Cattoni, A.F., Fiorina, J., Bader, F., De Nardis, L. eds: Cognitive Radio and Networking for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Recent Advances and Visions for the Future. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Audeh, B., Beaune, P., Beigbeder, M.: Recall-Oriented Evaluation for Information Retrieval Systems. In: Lupu, M., Kanoulas, E., and Loizides, F. (eds.) Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval: 6th Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2013, Limassol, Cyprus, October 7-9, 2013. Proceedings. pp. 29–32. 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 Vietnam Journal of Mathematics.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Everything You Need To Know About The Legal High Ban, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/everything-you-need-know-about-legal-high-ban/

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: Information Technology: INS Needs to Better Manage the Development of Its Enterprise Architecture. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2000)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wallace, D.R.: A Comparative Analysis of a Conventional Versus a Computer-assisted Technique for Identification of Mechanical Power Press Hazards, (2006)

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

Itzkoff, D., Bai, M., Goldstein, J., Spitznagel, E., Hodgman, J., Leff, A., Rushfield, R., Veis, G., Glaser, E., Skurnick, L., Hanel, M., Newton, M., Silcoff, M., Zimmerman, E., Kelly, J., Shortz, W., Cowe, T., Carroll, D.: The One-Page Magazine, (2012)

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 Mathematics
Abbreviation	Vietnam J. Math.
ISSN (print)	2305-221X
ISSN (online)	2305-2228
Scope	General Mathematics