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. Hamer D. Genetics. Rethinking behavior genetics. Science. 2002;298:71–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Poulet JFA, Hedwig B. A corollary discharge maintains auditory sensitivity during sound production. Nature. 2002;418:872–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bali E, Audétat A, Keppler H. Water and hydrogen are immiscible in Earth’s mantle. Nature. 2013;495:220–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Li B, Sheng M, Li J, Yan G, Lin A, Li M, et al. Tear proteomic analysis of Sjögren syndrome patients with dry eye syndrome by two-dimensional-nano-liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Freeman RL. Fundamentals of Telecommunications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Tarokh V, editor. New Directions in Wireless Communications Research. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Seidl H, Kovács M. Interprocedural Information Flow Analysis of XML Processors. In: Dediu A-H, Martín-Vide C, Sierra-Rodríguez J-L, Truthe B, editors. Language and Automata Theory and Applications: 8th International Conference, LATA 2014, Madrid, Spain, March 10-14, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 34–61.

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. There Will Be Four Rovers On Mars In 2021, As ESA Funds ExoMars Mission [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-will-be-four-rovers-on-mars-in-2021-as-esa-funds-exomars-mission/

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. International Aviation: DOT Needs More Information to Address U.S. Airlines’ Problems in Doing Business Abroad. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994 Nov. Report No.: RCED-95-24.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Volkmer JE. The Cretaceous-Tertiary tectonic evolution of the Lhasa Terrane, Tibet [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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. Nossiter A, Gladstone R. Series of Shootings and Blasts, Apparently Coordinated. New York Times. 2015 Nov 13;A1.

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
Scope

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