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]

M.N. Meyer, Misjudgements will drive social trials underground, Nature. 511 (2014) 265.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I.B. Levitan, S.M. Cibulsky, Biochemistry. TRP ion channels--two proteins in one, Science. 293 (2001) 1270–1271.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.G. Mani, A. Kriisa, W. Wegscheider, Size-dependent giant-magnetoresistance in millimeter scale GaAs/AlGaAs 2D electron devices, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2747.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Senju, V. Southgate, S. White, U. Frith, Mindblind eyes: an absence of spontaneous theory of mind in Asperger syndrome, Science. 325 (2009) 883–885.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Pozen, T. Hamacher, D. Phillips, The Fund Industry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

H. Pham, ed., Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, Springer, London, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Levin, J.S. Luchs, A.O. Ortiz, Percutaneous Spinal Facet and Sacroiliac Joint Injection, in: A. Gangi, S. Guth, A. Guermazi (Eds.), Imaging in Percutaneous Musculoskeletal Interventions, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 73–82.

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 Applied Computing and Informatics.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, That Inflatable Module On The ISS Is Doing Pretty Well, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/that-inflatable-module-on-the-iss-is-doing-pretty-well/ (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, Advance Sheets: Volume 74, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

F. Zarate Ramirez, Pedagogical and performance approach to selected bel canto songs and arias of Bellini and Donizetti, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

C. Kelly, My Other Job, Crazy as It Is, Keeps Me Sane, New York Times. (2009) BU2.

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