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

Barabási, A.-L.: The origin of bursts and heavy tails in human dynamics. Nature. 435, 207–211 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Menezes, T., Roth, C.: Symbolic regression of generative network models. Sci. Rep. 4, 6284 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Parkin, S.S.P., Hayashi, M., Thomas, L.: Magnetic domain-wall racetrack memory. Science. 320, 190–194 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mutreja, A., Kim, D.W., Thomson, N.R., Connor, T.R., Lee, J.H., Kariuki, S., Croucher, N.J., Choi, S.Y., Harris, S.R., Lebens, M., Niyogi, S.K., Kim, E.J., Ramamurthy, T., Chun, J., Wood, J.L.N., Clemens, J.D., Czerkinsky, C., Nair, G.B., Holmgren, J., Parkhill, J., Dougan, G.: Evidence for several waves of global transmission in the seventh cholera pandemic. Nature. 477, 462–465 (2011)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hunter, D.A.: A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

Nilius, B., Amara, S.G., Gudermann, T., Jahn, R., Lill, R., Offermanns, S., Petersen, O.H. eds: Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Vol. 163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Gensch, T., Untiet, V., Franzen, A., Kovermann, P., Fahlke, C.: Determination of Intracellular Chloride Concentrations by Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging. In: Becker, W. (ed.) Advanced Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting Applications. pp. 189–211. Springer International Publishing, Cham (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 Mathematics.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Brand New Marine Reptile Once Dominated The Seas As Dinosaurs Ruled The Land, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brand-new-marine-reptile-once-dominated-the-seas-as-dinosaurs-ruled-the-land/

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: VA Has Taken Important Steps to Centralize Control of Its Resources, but Effectiveness Depends on Additional Planned Actions. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams, C.D.: Playing the Hungarian card: An assessment of radical right impact on Slovak and Hungarian party systems and post-Communist democratic stability, (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

Gurley, G.: A Wealth of Ideas, (2014)

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