How to format your references using the Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering. 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

Torquato S (2000) Glass transition. Hard knock for thermodynamics. Nature 405:521, 523

A journal article with 2 authors

Clement A, DiNezio P (2014) Climate change. The tropical Pacific Ocean--back in the driver’s seat? Science 343:976–978

A journal article with 3 authors

Thompson RJ, Zhou N, MacVicar BA (2006) Ischemia opens neuronal gap junction hemichannels. Science 312:924–927

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhou Y, Zhang J, Su G, Li J (2014) From sphere to polyhedron: a hypothesis on the formation of high-index surfaces in nanocrystals. Sci Rep 4:6520

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weller RB, Hunter HJA, Mann MW (2014) Clinical Dermatology. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Sharvit K, Halperin E (2016) A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal, Vol II, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Eastwood M, Xu F (2013) Twistor Theory and the Harmonic Hull. In: Huckleberry A, Penkov I, Zuckerman G (eds) Lie Groups: Structure, Actions, and Representations: In Honor of Joseph A. Wolf on the Occasion of his 75th Birthday. Springer, New York, NY, pp 59–80

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 Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Could This Biochemist’s Veggie Burger Be The Closest Thing To Real Meat? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/could-biochemists-veggie-burger-be-closest-thing-real-meat/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1979) Data Base Management Systems--Without Careful Planning There Can Be Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pan X (2008) Using Structural Information in Modeling and Multiple Alignments for Phylogenetics. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Baker L (2007) Near Seattle, Tribal Casinos Lead to Even Bigger Bets. New York Times C6

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	Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
Abbreviation	Arch. Comput. Methods Eng.
ISSN (print)	1134-3060
ISSN (online)	1886-1784
Scope	Computer Science Applications Applied Mathematics