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

Hill GE (2004) Ecology. A head start for some redstarts. Science 306:2201–2202

A journal article with 2 authors

Steiner L, Ploegh H (2014) Herman Eisen (1918-2014). Nature 516:38

A journal article with 3 authors

Henrich J, Heine SJ, Norenzayan A (2010) Most people are not WEIRD. Nature 466:29

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sano Y, Kawayama I, Tabata M, et al (2014) Imaging molecular adsorption and desorption dynamics on graphene using terahertz emission spectroscopy. Sci Rep 4:6046

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stanley W, Pamela B (2017) The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Gengnagel C, Kilian A, Palz N, Scheurer F (2012) Computational Design Modelling: Proceedings of the Design Modelling Symposium Berlin 2011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Penna A, Rota M, Galasco A, Mouyiannou A (2015) Towards the Use of Time-History Analysis for the Seismic Assessment of Masonry Structures. In: Psycharis IN, Pantazopoulou SJ, Papadrakakis M (eds) Seismic Assessment, Behavior and Retrofit of Heritage Buildings and Monuments. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 83–111

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) Watch The ISS Fly Over Spectacular Aurora. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-iss-fly-over-spectacular-aurora/. 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 (1998) FCC: Unlicensed NII Devices in the 5 GHz Frequency Range. 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

Luscinski A (2017) Best Practices in Adult Online Learning. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Eligon J, Nolan K (2016) Angry After Milwaukee Police Shooting, Protesters Turn Against News Media, Too. New York Times A8

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