How to format your references using the Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences. 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

1. Lawler A. 2007 U.S. budget. NASA budget soars as shuttle lands. Science. 2006;313:280.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mjolsness E, DeCoste D. Machine learning for science: state of the art and future prospects. Science. 2001;293:2051–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Xu K, Zhong G, Zhuang X. Actin, spectrin, and associated proteins form a periodic cytoskeletal structure in axons. Science. 2013;339:452–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Okada T, Iitaka T, Yagi T, Aoki K. Electrical conductivity of ice VII. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5778.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Dubuisson S. Tracking with Particle Filter for High-Dimensional Observation and State Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

1. Ricci G, editor. Teoria dei numeri. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Laouafi A, Mordjaoui M, Dib D. One-Hour Ahead Electric Load Forecasting Using Neuro-fuzzy System in a Parallel Approach. In: Azar AT, Vaidyanathan S, editors. Computational Intelligence Applications in Modeling and Control. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 95–121.

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 Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences.

Blog post

1. Evans K. Sorry Zookeepers, Chimps Don’t Care If You Play Them Music [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sorry-zookeepers-chimps-dont-care-if-you-play-them-music/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Explosives Detection Canines: TSA Has Taken Steps to Analyze Canine Team Data and Assess the Effectiveness of Passenger Screening Canines. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Jun. Report No.: GAO-14-695T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Katukuri J. Relationship Extraction and Link Discovery from Biomedical Literature [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2012.

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

1. Vecsey G. As a Butterfly or as a Bee, Ali Made an Impression. New York Times. 2016 Jun 4;D3.

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	Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences
Abbreviation	Adv. Model. Simul. Eng. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2213-7467
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