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

Norenzayan, A.: Behavior. Explaining human behavioral diversity. Science. 332, 1041–1042 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lawler, A., Mervis, J.: 2001 BUDGET: NSF and NASA Score Last-Minute Victories. Science. 290, 683a (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, Q.D., Gotthelf, E.V., Lang, C.C.: A faint discrete source origin for the highly ionized iron emission from the Galactic Centre region. Nature. 415, 148–150 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sandhu, A.S., Gagnon, E., Santra, R., Sharma, V., Li, W., Ho, P., Ranitovic, P., Cocke, C.L., Murnane, M.M., Kapteyn, H.C.: Observing the creation of electronic feshbach resonances in soft x-ray-induced O2 dissociation. Science. 322, 1081–1085 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bell, M.: Incremental Software Architecture. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Meduna, A.: Regulated Grammars and Automata. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Gütl, C., Rizzardini, R.H., Chang, V., Morales, M.: Attrition in MOOC: Lessons Learned from Drop-Out Students. In: Uden, L., Sinclair, J., Tao, Y.-H., and Liberona, D. (eds.) Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. MOOC and Big Data: Third International Workshop, LTEC 2014, Santiago, Chile, September 2-5, 2014. Proceedings. pp. 37–48. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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

Andrew, E.: Personal Microbiomes Could Be Used To Identify Individuals, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/personal-microbiomes-could-be-used-identify-individuals/

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: Computer Technology at IRS: Present and Planned. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1983)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Panjabi, C.: Real and imagined immigrant identities in the public sphere: Representations of South Asian women in literary and television media, (2010)

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

Walsh, M.W.: Debt Plan Still Fragile for Puerto Rico Utility, Lawmakers Are Told, (2016)

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