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

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

F.M. Platt, Sphingolipid lysosomal storage disorders, Nature 510 (2014) 68–75.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Brunet, A. Liston, Polyploidy and gender dimorphism, Science 291 (2001) 1441.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.K. Maini, R.E. Baker, C.-M. Chuong, Developmental biology. The Turing model comes of molecular age, Science 314 (2006) 1397–1398.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Marchetti, M.S. Parker, L.P. Moccia, E.O. Lin, A.L. Arrieta, F. Ribalet, M.E.P. Murphy, M.T. Maldonado, E.V. Armbrust, Ferritin is used for iron storage in bloom-forming marine pennate diatoms, Nature 457 (2009) 467–470.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Vitale, I.H. Len, Zero Limits, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

B. Graimann, G. Pfurtscheller, B. Allison, eds., Brain-Computer Interfaces: Revolutionizing Human-Computer Interaction, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.V. Ukraintseva, K.G. Arbeev, I. Akushevich, A.M. Kulminski, E. Stallard, A.I. Yashin, Factors That May Increase Vulnerability to Cancer and Longevity in Modern Human Populations, in: E. Stallard, K.C. Land (Eds.), Biodemography of Aging: Determinants of Healthy Life Span and Longevity, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2016: pp. 113–141.

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 Informatics.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Astronomers Discover Giant Magnetic Fields Stretching Between Galaxies, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-discover-giant-magnetic-fields-stretching-between-galaxies/ (accessed October 30, 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, Trends in State Capital Investment in Highways, an E-supplement to GAO-03-744R, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.A. Helgoe, The impact of federal policy on teachers’ use of science manipulatives: A survey of teacher philosophy and practices, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2008.

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]

J. Otis, A Troubled Student Tries a New School, and It Alters the Course of Her Life, New York Times (2017) A19.

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	Applied Computing and Informatics
Abbreviation	Appl. Comput. Inform.
ISSN (print)	2210-8327
Scope