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]

V. Speirs, Perspective: Not just for women, Nature 485 (2012) S66.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Milczarek, O. Inganäs, Renewable cathode materials from biopolymer/conjugated polymer interpenetrating networks, Science 335 (2012) 1468–1471.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.E. Nasrallah, P. Liu, J.B. Nasrallah, Generation of self-incompatible Arabidopsis thaliana by transfer of two S locus genes from A. lyrata, Science 297 (2002) 247–249.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.G. Lee, C. Wynder, N. Cooch, R. Shiekhattar, An essential role for CoREST in nucleosomal histone 3 lysine 4 demethylation, Nature 437 (2005) 432–435.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Kölle, Wasseranalysen - richtig beurteilt, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

C. Tidona, G. Darai, eds., The Springer Index of Viruses, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Dominguez, C.D.R. Arca, W.S. Ward, The Relationship Between Chromatin Structure and DNA Damage in Mammalian Spermatozoa, in: A. Zini, A. Agarwal (Eds.), Sperm Chromatin: Biological and Clinical Applications in Male Infertility and Assisted Reproduction, Springer, New York, NY, 2011: pp. 61–68.

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]

T. Hale, Why Have Rivers In France Turned Vivid Green This Week?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/why-have-rivers-france-turned-vivid-green-week/ (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, Surface Transportation: Regional Distribution of Federal Highway Funds, 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]

R. van der Steen, Intended infidelity: Male-female differences in intention-behavior congruence and the relative prediction power of gender, relationship and individual difference variables, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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. Feeney, Alsatian Sauerkraut, Anyone?, New York Times (2009) NJ9.

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