How to format your references using the Advances in Complex Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Complex Systems. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Schrag, D. P., Preparing to capture carbon, Science 315 (2007) 812–813.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sahin, E., and Depinho, R. A., Linking functional decline of telomeres, mitochondria and stem cells during ageing, Nature 464 (2010) 520–528.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Victor, D. G., Gerlagh, R., and Baiocchi, G., Climate policy. Getting serious about categorizing countries, Science 345 (2014) 34–36.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Shannon, M. A., Bohn, P. W., Elimelech, M., Georgiadis, J. G., Mariñas, B. J., and Mayes, A. M., Science and technology for water purification in the coming decades, Nature 452 (2008) 301–310.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sugirtharajah, R. S., Exploring Postcolonial Biblical Criticism, (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011).

An edited book

[1]

Pandolfo, I., Orthopantomography, (Springer, Milano, 2013).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dämmrich, M. E., and Kreipe, H. H., Standardized Processing of Native Tissue in Breast Pathology, in Pre-Analytics of Pathological Specimens in Oncology, eds. Dietel, M., Wittekind, C., Bussolati, G., and Winterfeld, M. von, (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015), pp. 45–53.

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 Advances in Complex Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz, S., Cosmic Lighthouse Disappears From View, IFLScience (2015).

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, Federal Vehicle Collisions and Aftermarket Collision Avoidance Technologies, (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Roan, R., Depth and Digital in Conversation: Practicing Marriage and Family Therapy Directly With Video Game Avatars, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, (2017).

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]

Wagner, J., Syndergaard Has to Take Mets’ Offer, New York Times (2017) D5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3,4].
This sentence cites four references [3,4,8,7].

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Complex Systems
Abbreviation	Adv. Complex Syst.
ISSN (print)	0219-5259
ISSN (online)	1793-6802
Scope	Control and Systems Engineering