How to format your references using the Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling. 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

Cohen-Cory S (2002) The developing synapse: construction and modulation of synaptic structures and circuits. Science 298:770–776

A journal article with 2 authors

Davidson K, Smith N (2000) A massive cool dust torus around eta Carinae? Nature 405:532

A journal article with 3 authors

Chou C-H, Chuang J-K, Chen F-C (2013) High-performance flexible waveguiding photovoltaics. Sci Rep 3:2244

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee JY, Lee K-T, Seo S, Guo LJ (2014) Decorative power generating panels creating angle insensitive transmissive colors. Sci Rep 4:4192

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arteaga R, Hyland J (2013) Pivot. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Bergmann R, Lindemann G, Kirn S, Pěchouček M (eds) (2008) Multiagent System Technologies: 6th German Conference, MATES 2008, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 23-26, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Todić D (2011) Social and Environmental Issues Related to Security in SEE Countries. In: Montini M, Bogdanovic S (eds) Environmental Security in South-Eastern Europe: International Agreements and Their Implementation. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–58

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 Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) Liquid Gallium Meets A Bluetooth Speaker And A Freaky Dance Ensues. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/liquid-gallium-meets-bluetooth-speaker-freaky-dance-ensues/. 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 (2009) Federal Research: Information on the Government’s Right to Assert Ownership Control over Federally Funded Inventions. 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

Nguyen D (2009) Deus-ex-machina: A modern skeptic’s relentless scrutiny of the production of ethics in post-colonial literature and postcolonialism. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Billard M (2010) Art? Jewelry? Fashion? Maybe All Three. New York Times E6

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Cohen-Cory 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Davidson and Smith 2000; Cohen-Cory 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Davidson and Smith 2000)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling
Abbreviation	Complex Adapt. Syst. Model.
ISSN (online)	2194-3206
Scope