How to format your references using the Engineering with Computers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Engineering with Computers. 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

Weaver HA (2004) Not a rubble pile? Science 304:1760–1762

A journal article with 2 authors

Caputo JM, Collins SH (2014) Prosthetic ankle push-off work reduces metabolic rate but not collision work in non-amputee walking. Sci Rep 4:7213

A journal article with 3 authors

Tobie G, Lunine JI, Sotin C (2006) Episodic outgassing as the origin of atmospheric methane on Titan. Nature 440:61–64

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wu Y, Zhang X, Pan H, et al (2013) In-situ device integration of large-area patterned organic nanowire arrays for high-performance optical sensors. Sci Rep 3:3248

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang Z-G (2016) Internal Combustion Processes of Liquid Rocket Engines. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Srikanthan T, Xue J, Chang C-H (2005) Advances in Computer Systems Architecture: 10th Asia-Pacific Conference, ACSAC 2005, Singapore, October 24-26, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Abler G, Ehlting M (2007) Smart shopping in the European low cost flight market. In: Conrady R, Buck M (eds) Trends and Issues in Global Tourism 2007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–49

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 Engineering with Computers.

Blog post

Andrew D (2015) 7 Myths About Your Body That You Probably Believe. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/7-myths-you-probably-believe-about-your-body/. 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 (1990) Guaranteed Student Loans: Profits of Secondary Market Lenders Vary Widely. 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

Martinez JC (2015) Theoretically tested remediation in response to insect resistance to Bt corn and Bt cotton: A new paradigm. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Shear MD, Erlanger S (2017) Trump Condemns ‘Deeply Troubling’ Leaks on Attack After Complaints in Britain. New York Times A12

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	Engineering with Computers
Abbreviation	Eng. Comput.
ISSN (print)	0177-0667
ISSN (online)	1435-5663
Scope	Computer Science Applications Software General Engineering Modelling and Simulation