How to format your references using the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

R. Marais, RETROSPECTIVE. Christopher Marshall (1949-2015), Science 350 (2015) 1040.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Xie, D.L. Black, A CaMK IV responsive RNA element mediates depolarization-induced alternative splicing of ion channels, Nature 410 (2001) 936–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Chen, K.L. Dürr, E. Gouaux, X-ray structures of AMPA receptor-cone snail toxin complexes illuminate activation mechanism, Science 345 (2014) 1021–1026.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.F. Clarke, J.W. Dalley, H.S. Crofts, T.W. Robbins, A.C. Roberts, Cognitive inflexibility after prefrontal serotonin depletion, Science 304 (2004) 878–880.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.K. Bennett, Affine and Projective Geometry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1995.

An edited book

[1]

J.E. Quintela Varajão, M.M. Cruz-Cunha, G.D. Putnik, A. Trigo, eds., ENTERprise Information Systems: International Conference, CENTERIS 2010, Viana do Castelo, Portugal, October 20-22, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Bhansali, J. Roychowdhury, Injection Locking Analysis and Simulation of Weakly Coupled Oscillator Networks, in: P. Li, L.M. Silveira, P. Feldmann (Eds.), Simulation and Verification of Electronic and Biological Systems, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 71–93.

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 Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Dolphins Have A Magnetic Sense, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dolphins-have-magnetic-sense/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Student Loans: Limited Information Is Available to Determine How Students’ College Debt Affects Their School and Lifestyle Decisions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.P. Huger Marsh, Perspectives of disciplinary problems and practices in elementary schools, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 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

[1]

B. Brantley, Terrors of an Unfixed Reality, New York Times (2017) C1.

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	Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
Abbreviation	Electron. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1571-0661
Scope	General Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science