How to format your references using the Advances in Simulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Simulation. 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. Barnard AS. Materials science: nanoscale locomotion without fuel. Nature. 2015;519:37–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pitaevskii L, Stringari S. Ultracold matter. The quest for superfluidity in Fermi gases. Science. 2002;298:2144–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kinoshita T, Wenger T, Weiss DS. Observation of a one-dimensional Tonks-Girardeau gas. Science. 2004;305:1125–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Blair KM, Turner L, Winkelman JT, Berg HC, Kearns DB. A molecular clutch disables flagella in the Bacillus subtilis biofilm. Science. 2008;320:1636–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Chen W-Y. NeuroInvesting. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Setubal JC, Verjovski-Almeida S, editors. Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2005, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, July 27-29, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Wildman JL, Qureshi RA, Salazar M, Salas E. Educational Approaches Across Cultures: Consequences for International I/O Programs. In: Griffith RL, Thompson LF, Armon BK, editors. Internationalizing the Curriculum in Organizational Psychology. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 59–78.

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 Simulation.

Blog post

1. Davis J. The Ganges And Yamuna Rivers Given Same Legal Rights As Humans [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-ganges-and-yamuna-rivers-given-same-legal-rights-as-humans/

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. Tax Systems Modernization: Progress in Achieving IRS’ Business Vision. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 May. Report No.: T-GGD-96-123.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Millar CL. Re-specting graffiti: Transgression at play in art, language, and ritual [Doctoral dissertation]. [Carpinteria, CA]: Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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. Bilefsky D. Romanian President Survives Ouster Bid. New York Times. 2012 Jul 30;A8.

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	Advances in Simulation
Abbreviation	Adv. Simul.
ISSN (online)	2059-0628
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