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. Hengartner MO. Apoptosis. DNA destroyers. Nature. 2001;412:27, 29.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Mathews JA, Tan H. Economics: Manufacture renewables to build energy security. Nature. 2014;513:166–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Togashi T, Sasaki H, Yoshimura J. A geometrical approach explains Lake Ball (Marimo) formations in the green alga, Aegagropila linnaei. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3761.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bankovich AJ, Raunser S, Juo ZS, Walz T, Davis MM, Garcia KC. Structural insight into pre-B cell receptor function. Science. 2007;316:291–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Robertson B, Vignaux GA, Berger CEH. Interpreting Evidence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Kreibich C, Jahnke M, editors. Detection of Intrusions and Malware, and Vulnerability Assessment: 7th International Conference, DIMVA 2010, Bonn, Germany, July 8-9, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zhou T, Wu B, Li Y, Liu H, Li L, Zhang L, et al. Metrics for Gauging Model Performance Over the East Asian–Western Pacific Domain. In: Zhou T, Wu T, Xue W, Zhou G, editors. Development and Evaluation of High Resolution Climate System Models. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 209–56.

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. Carpineti A. Magnetic Field In Fusion Reactor Mapped With Extraordinary Precision [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/magnetic-field-in-fusion-reactor-mapped-with-extraordinary-precision/

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. Income Security Issue Area: Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Sep. Report No.: AA-97-11(3).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mayfield KM. Project managers’ experience and description of decision uncertainty associated with the agile software development methodology: A phenomenological study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2010.

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. Hollander S. The “Roswell” Army Fights for Its Show on the Web. New York Times. 2001 Jun 10;232.

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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