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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

P. Smaglik, A question of age, Nature 434 (2005) 1159.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.J. Hines, L.M. Zahn, What’s bugging plants? Plant-microbe interactions. Introduction, Science 324 (2009) 741.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H.L. Bryden, E.L. McDonagh, B.A. King, Changes in ocean water mass properties: oscillations or trends?, Science 300 (2003) 2086–2088.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.A. Salahudeen, J.W. Thompson, J.C. Ruiz, H.-W. Ma, L.N. Kinch, Q. Li, N.V. Grishin, R.K. Bruick, An E3 ligase possessing an iron-responsive hemerythrin domain is a regulator of iron homeostasis, Science 326 (2009) 722–726.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Hinkelmann, O. Kempthorne, Design and Analysis of Experiments: Advanced Experimental Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kuro-o, ed., Endocrine FGFs and Klothos, Springer US, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Aadland, The Performative Relation Between Storyteller, Story, and Children, in: O. Erstad, K. Kumpulainen, Å. Mäkitalo, K.C. Schrøder, P. Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, T. Jóhannsdóttir (Eds.), Learning across Contexts in the Knowledge Society, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2016: pp. 61–84.

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]

J. Davis, The UK Government Just Got Rid Of Its Climate Department, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-uk-government-just-got-rid-of-its-climate-department/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Status of Efforts to Deal With Personnel Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.M. Ilag, An examination of the entity participants’ collaborative partnerships within the United Nations Global Compact, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2014.

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]

B. Mueller, Prudence or Power Grab? Cuomo Adds Troopers to New York City, New York Times (2017) 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 Soft Computing Journal
Abbreviation	Appl. Soft Comput.
ISSN (print)	1568-4946
Scope	Software