How to format your references using the Future Computing and Informatics Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future Computing and Informatics Journal. 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]

Alvarez-Buylla A. Yoshiki Sasai (1962-2014). Nature 2014;513:34.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dickinson JL, Koenig WD. Ecology and evolution. Desperately seeking similarity. Science 2003;300:1887–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ladet S, David L, Domard A. Multi-membrane hydrogels. Nature 2008;452:76–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Spegazzini N, Barman I, Dingari NC, Pandey R, Soares JS, Ozaki Y, et al. Spectroscopic approach for dynamic bioanalyte tracking with minimal concentration information. Sci Rep 2014;4:7013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Panek W, Wentworth T. Mastering Microsoft® Windows® 7 Administration. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Konstantas D, Bourrières J-P, Léonard M, Boudjlida N, editors. Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications. London: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pears R, Sing Koh Y, Dobbie G. EWGen: Automatic Generation of Item Weights for Weighted Association Rule Mining. In: Cao L, Feng Y, Zhong J, editors. Advanced Data Mining and Applications: 6th International Conference, ADMA 2010, Chongqing, China, November 19-21, 2010, Proceedings, Part I, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 36–47.

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 Future Computing and Informatics Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Astronomy Student Discovers “Warm Neptune” Exoplanet Within Habitable Zone. IFLScience 2016.

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. Continuing Professional Education Study: Budget Analysts in the Federal Government, GS-560 Series. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Davenport LC. Behavior and ecology of the Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) in oxbow lakes of the Manú Biosphere Reserve, Perú. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina, 2008.

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]

Barron J. A Central Park Road, High and Unwinding, Worries a Path’s Fans. New York Times 2017:A18.

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	Future Computing and Informatics Journal
Abbreviation	Futur. Comput. Inform. J.
ISSN (print)	2314-7288
Scope