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]

B.W. O’Malley, Molecular biology. Little molecules with big goals, Science. 313 (2006) 1749–1750.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.F. Molino, D. Sabatier, Tree diversity in tropical rain forests: a validation of the intermediate disturbance hypothesis, Science. 294 (2001) 1702–1704.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Wen, S. Zhou, J. Chen, Colorimetric detection of Shewanella oneidensis based on immunomagnetic capture and bacterial intrinsic peroxidase activity, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5191.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.R. Dinse, P. Ragert, B. Pleger, P. Schwenkreis, M. Tegenthoff, Pharmacological modulation of perceptual learning and associated cortical reorganization, Science. 301 (2003) 91–94.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Yu, Way of the Trade, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

F. Herrera, Multilabel Classification: Problem Analysis, Metrics and Techniques, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Świtoński, B. Piórkowski, H. Josiński, K. Wojciechowski, A. Drabik, Recognition of Human Gestures Represented by Depth Camera Motion Sequences, in: D. Barbucha, N.T. Nguyen, J. Batubara (Eds.), New Trends in Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 33–42.

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. Davis, Scientists Turn Blood Cells Into Neurons, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-turn-blood-cells-neurons/ (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, Army Airlift: Need To Use Air Lines of Communications for Essential Items, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Ma, Vesicular Stomatitis Virus as a Vector to Deliver Virus-Like Particles of Human Norovirus: A New Live Vectored Vaccine for Human Norovirus, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 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]

J.B. Stewart, Trump, the Tax Code and a Loophole for the Rich, New York Times. (2016) 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	Applied Computing and Informatics
Abbreviation	Appl. Comput. Inform.
ISSN (print)	2210-8327
Scope

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