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. Alerstam T. Conflicting evidence about long-distance animal navigation. Science. 2006;313:791–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Thomas GL, Thorne RE. Night-time predation by Steller sea lions. Nature. 2001;411:1013.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Clanet C, Hersen F, Bocquet L. Secrets of successful stone-skipping. Nature. 2004;427:29.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hurlstone AFL, Haramis A-PG, Wienholds E, Begthel H, Korving J, Van Eeden F, et al. The Wnt/beta-catenin pathway regulates cardiac valve formation. Nature. 2003;425:633–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kampen TU. Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductors. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

1. Mendonca A, Cunha A, Chakrabarti R, editors. Natural Resources, Sustainability and Humanity: A Comprehensive View. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Prain V, Tytler R. Learning through the Affordances of Representation Construction. In: Tytler R, Prain V, Hubber P, Waldrip B, editors. Constructing Representations to Learn in Science. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2013. p. 67–82.

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. O`Callaghan J. SpaceX Plans To Send Two People On A Mission To The Moon In 2018 [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-plans-to-send-two-people-on-a-mission-to-the-moon-in-2018/

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. Aviation Security: Risk, Experience, and Customer Concerns Drive Changes to Airline Passenger Screening Procedures, but Evaluation and Documentation of Proposed Changes Could Be Improved. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Apr. Report No.: GAO-07-634.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hawkins AJ. Measurement of the spacial distribution of heat exchange in a geothermal analog bedrock site using fiber-otic distributed temperature sensing [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Wagner J. Their Run Together May Be Nearing an End. New York Times. 2017 Jun 28;B8.

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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