How to format your references using the Applied Soft Computing Journal citation style

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

R.K. Wilson, Retrospective. Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012), Science 337 (2012) 661.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Taylor, A. Forge, Developmental biology. Life after deaf for hair cells?, Science 307 (2005) 1056–1058.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

V. Hejazi, K. Sobolev, M. Nosonovsky, From superhydrophobicity to icephobicity: forces and interaction analysis, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2194.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.M. Johnson, J. Castle, P. Garrett-Engele, Z. Kan, P.M. Loerch, C.D. Armour, R. Santos, E.E. Schadt, R. Stoughton, D.D. Shoemaker, Genome-wide survey of human alternative pre-mRNA splicing with exon junction microarrays, Science 302 (2003) 2141–2144.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Sabol, Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

S. Madria, T. Hara, eds., Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery: 17th International Conference, DaWaK 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Hirakawa, M. Shirabe, Rhetorical Marginalization of Science and Democracy: Politics in Risk Discourse on Radioactive Risks in Japan, in: Y. Fujigaki (Ed.), Lessons From Fukushima: Japanese Case Studies on Science, Technology and Society, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 57–86.

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 Soft Computing Journal.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Hangover-Free Alcohol Could Replace Normal Booze By 2050, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hangoverfree-alcohol-could-replace-normal-booze-by-2050/ (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, Social Security Administration: Responses to Subcommittee Questions About the On-line PEBES Service, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Hoffmann, An exploratory study: Mobile device use for academics, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2015.

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]

K. Kelly, S. Eder, Trump Adviser Tied to Goldman to Sell Chinese Bank Stake, New York Times (2017) B2.

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 Soft Computing Journal
Abbreviation	Appl. Soft Comput.
ISSN (print)	1568-4946
Scope	Software