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]

T. Neubert, Atmospheric science. On sprites and their exotic kin, Science 300 (2003) 747–749.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.J. Gibbs, A.J. Gibbs, Molecular virology: was the 1918 pandemic caused by a bird flu?, Nature 440 (2006) E8; discussion E9-10.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Wilmé, S.M. Goodman, J.U. Ganzhorn, Biogeographic evolution of Madagascar’s microendemic biota, Science 312 (2006) 1063–1065.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Roche, F.A. Rey, Y. Gaudin, S. Bressanelli, Structure of the prefusion form of the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein G, Science 315 (2007) 843–848.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Z. Rezaee, Financial Services Firms, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M. Inoue, M. Levy, A.V. Baryshev, eds., Magnetophotonics: From Theory to Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Ankerhold, Dissipation in Quantum Mechanical Systems: Where Is the System and Where Is the Reservoir?, in: B. Falkenburg, M. Morrison (Eds.), Why More Is Different: Philosophical Issues in Condensed Matter Physics and Complex Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 55–67.

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]

E. Andrew, Molten lava meets a can of Coke, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/molten-lava-meets-can-coke/ (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, Commercial Aviation: Air Service Trends At Small Communities Since October 2000, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.C. Frost, Quantitative correlational study of communication satisfaction related to organizational proximity and face-to-face communication, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2009.

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. Feeney, A Fresh Pita Oasis, Plus Kebabs and Flatbreads, New York Times (2009) NJ8.

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