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

Gewin, V.: The art of self-defence. Nature. 452, 498–500 (2008)

A journal article with 2 authors

Niehoff, D.L., Rhodes, R.: Ideas about the development of violent behavior. Science. 290, 1093c–5c (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Field, J., Cronin, A., Bridge, C.: Future fitness and helping in social queues. Nature. 441, 214–217 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matthews, J.C.F., Poulios, K., Meinecke, J.D.A., Politi, A., Peruzzo, A., Ismail, N., Wörhoff, K., Thompson, M.G., O’Brien, J.L.: Observing fermionic statistics with photons in arbitrary processes. Sci. Rep. 3, 1539 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tibergien, M., Pomering, R.: Practice Made (More) Perfect. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Roux, C. ed: Safe Spaces: Human Rights Education in Diverse Contexts. SensePublishers, Rotterdam (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Herzig, A., Lima, T. de, Lorini, E., Troquard, N.: Three Traditions in the Logic of Action: Bringing them Together. In: Trypuz, R. (ed.) Krister Segerberg on Logic of Actions. pp. 61–84. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (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.: Beautiful Photo Of Saturn’s Moon Tethys Reveals Strange Impact Crater, https://www.iflscience.com/space/beautiful-photo-saturns-moon-tethys/

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: Diploma Mills: Diploma Mills Are Easily Created and Some Have Issued Bogus Degrees to Federal Employees at Government Expense. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2004)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grijalva, J.A.: Exploring cultural finance: A phenomenological approach to comparative cultural perceptions of money in Mexico, (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

Kelly, C.: A Great TV Series Set in Texas? Sorry, You’re Canceled, (2011)

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