How to format your references using the Applied Computing and Geosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Computing and Geosciences. 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

Parak, F., 2011. Rudolf L. Mössbauer (1929-2011). Nature 478, 325.

A journal article with 2 authors

Turck, F., Coupland, G., 2011. Plant science. When vernalization makes sense. Science 331, 36–37.

A journal article with 3 authors

Koskinen, T.T., Aylward, A.D., Miller, S., 2007. A stability limit for the atmospheres of giant extrasolar planets. Nature 450, 845–848.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Currie, C.R., Poulsen, M., Mendenhall, J., Boomsma, J.J., Billen, J., 2006. Coevolved crypts and exocrine glands support mutualistic bacteria in fungus-growing ants. Science 311, 81–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szeman, I., O’Brien, S., 2017. Popular Culture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Trebše, R. (Ed.), 2012. Infected Total Joint Arthroplasty: The Algorithmic Approach. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Henry, B.W., Malu, K.F., 2011. Coaching, Mentoring, and Supervision for Workplace Learning, in: Hafler, J.P. (Ed.), Extraordinary Learning in the Workplace. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 63–84.

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 Applied Computing and Geosciences.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2017. The 20 Best High-Paying Jobs In America For 2017 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-20-best-high-paying-jobs-in-america-for-2017/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 1988. Space Exploration: Cost, Schedule, and Performance of NASA’s Magellan Mission to Venus (No. NSIAD-88-130FS). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Caverly, R.S., 2010. Marketing masculinity: Male identity, boy culture, and the Boy Scouts of America 1900–1940 (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Barron, J., 2017. Flash Photography Allowed (When It’s Your Tour Guide). New York Times A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Parak, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Parak, 2011; Turck and Coupland, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Turck and Coupland, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Currie et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Computing and Geosciences
ISSN (print)	2590-1974
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