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 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

Ferrara A (2002) Astronomy. Radio noise from dust grains. Science 295:638–639

A journal article with 2 authors

Dar-Nimrod I, Heine SJ (2006) Exposure to scientific theories affects women’s math performance. Science 314:435

A journal article with 3 authors

Levine DI, Toffel MW, Johnson MS (2012) Randomized government safety inspections reduce worker injuries with no detectable job loss. Science 336:907–911

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Maxted PFL, Napiwotzki R, Dobbie PD, Burleigh MR (2006) Survival of a brown dwarf after engulfment by a red giant star. Nature 442:543–545

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Larsen E, Aarts RM (2005) Audio Bandwidth Extension. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hainzelin É (2013) Cultivating Biodiversity to Transform Agriculture. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Kakizuka A (2015) VCP, a Major ATPase in the Cells, as a Novel Drug Target for Currently Incurable Disorders. In: Nakao K, Minato N, Uemoto S (eds) Innovative Medicine: Basic Research and Development. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 61–69

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) Watch How This Insanely Clever Orca Catches A Bird. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/orca-uses-bait-hunt-bird-unfinished/. 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 (1987) Acid Rain: Delays and Management Changes in the Federal Research Program. 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

Bonilla E (2017) Parental Employment Status and Child Feeding Practices Among African American and Latina Adolescent Girls. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Alina. New York Times C11

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