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

Pollitz FF (2006) Geophysics. A new class of earthquake observations. Science 313:619–620

A journal article with 2 authors

Mescher MC, De Moraes CM (2014) Plant biology: Pass the ammunition. Nature 510:221–222

A journal article with 3 authors

Montaño SP, Pigli YZ, Rice PA (2012) The μ transpososome structure sheds light on DDE recombinase evolution. Nature 491:413–417

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen X, Dam MA, Ono K, et al (2002) A thermally re-mendable cross-linked polymeric material. Science 295:1698–1702

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harper C (2005) Analytic Methods in Physics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Reusch B (2005) Computational Intelligence, Theory and Applications: International Conference 8th Fuzzy Days in Dortmund, Germany, Sept. 29–Oct. 01, 2004 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Leong W, Wang D-A (2014) Engineering Biomaterials for Anchorage-Dependent and Non-anchorage-Dependent Therapeutic Cell Delivery in Translational Medicine. In: Cai W (ed) Engineering in Translational Medicine. Springer, London, pp 103–131

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 D (2016) Mastery Over Mindset: The Cost Of Rolling Out A Chinese Way Of Teaching Maths. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/mastery-over-mindset-the-cost-of-rolling-out-a-chinese-way-of-teaching-maths/. 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 (2000) National Airspace System: Problems Plaguing the Wide Area Augmentation System and FAA’s Actions to Address Them. 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

Mylonas A (2014) “Women are the pillars of the family”: Athenian women’s survival strategies during economic crisis. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Williams J (2017) Ruminations on the Inquiring Mind. 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

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