How to format your references using the Cluster Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cluster Computing. 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

Churchland, P.S.: Self-representation in nervous systems. Science. 296, 308–310 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Sneppen, K., Semsey, S.: Mismatch repair at stop codons is directed independent of GATC methylation on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Sci. Rep. 4, 7346 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Maharana, C., Sharma, K.P., Sharma, S.K.: Feedback mechanism in depolarization-induced sustained activation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase in the hippocampus. Sci. Rep. 3, 1103 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schietinger, A., Philip, M., Yoshida, B.A., Azadi, P., Liu, H., Meredith, S.C., Schreiber, H.: A mutant chaperone converts a wild-type protein into a tumor-specific antigen. Science. 314, 304–308 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosenbaum, J., Pearl, J.: Investment Banking. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009)

An edited book

Wong, C.P., Moon, K.-S., Li, Y. (grace) eds: Nano-Bio- Electronic, Photonic and MEMS Packaging. Springer US, Boston, MA (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Budisantoso, T., Bhati, A., Bradshaw, A., Tang, C.M.: Hedonic Shopping Motivation: Does It Really Matter? In: Mandal, P. and Vong, J. (eds.) Development of Tourism and the Hospitality Industry in Southeast Asia. pp. 51–64. Springer, Singapore (2016)

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 Cluster Computing.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: This Breathtaking Video Reveals How Humanity Took Over The World

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: Procedures and Policies of the Energy Research and Development Administration. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1976)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Willis, T.Y.: Rare but there: An intersectional exploration of the experiences and outcomes of Black women who studied abroad through community college programs, (2012)

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

Lesch, D.W., Gelvin, J.: What has Assad won?, (2017)

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	Cluster Computing
Abbreviation	Cluster Comput.
ISSN (print)	1386-7857
ISSN (online)	1573-7543
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Software