How to format your references using the Computer Architecture Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computer Architecture Letters. 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

[1]

B. D. Simons, “Development. Getting your gut into shape,” Science, vol. 342, no. 6155, pp. 203–204, Oct. 2013.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Inoue and Y. Zhang, “Replication-dependent loss of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in mouse preimplantation embryos,” Science, vol. 334, no. 6053, p. 194, Oct. 2011.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Bao, V. T. Chan, and M. M. Merzenich, “Cortical remodelling induced by activity of ventral tegmental dopamine neurons,” Nature, vol. 412, no. 6842, pp. 79–83, Jul. 2001.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. J. Choi et al., “Drawing circuits with carbon nanotubes: scratch-induced graphoepitaxial growth of carbon nanotubes on amorphous silicon oxide substrates,” Sci. Rep., vol. 4, p. 5289, Jun. 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K. Becker and K. Rautenstrauch, Ingenieurholzbau nach Eurocode 5: Konstruktion, Berechnung, Ausführung. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

I. Pan, Intelligent Fractional Order Systems and Control: An Introduction, vol. 438. in Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 438. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Faure and Y. Kawai, “Heat and salt budgets of the mixed layer around the Subarctic Front of the North Pacific Ocean,” in “Hot Spots” in the Climate System: New Developments in the Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research, H. Nakamura, A. Isobe, S. Minobe, H. Mitsudera, M. Nonaka, and T. Suga, Eds., Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2016, pp. 59–72.

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 Computer Architecture Letters.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, “Your Microbes Get Jetlag Too,” IFLScience. Accessed: Oct. 30, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/jetlag-disrupts-your-gut-microbes-too/

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, “Alternative-Fueled Vehicles: Progress Made in Accelerating Federal Purchases, but Benefits and Costs Remain Uncertain,” U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, RCED-94-161, Jul. 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Kotch, “Unduly harsh and unworkably rigid: The death penalty in North Carolina, 1910–1961,” Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, 2009.

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

[1]

M. J. O. Murphy, “‘Sesame Street’ When It Started,” New York Times, p. C25, Sep. 04, 2015.

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], [2], [3], [4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Computer Architecture Letters
Abbreviation	IEEE Comput. Arch. Lett.
ISSN (print)	1556-6056
Scope	Hardware and Architecture