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]

Spitzer NC. DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE. Neurotransmitter-tailored dendritic trees. Science 2015;350:510–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Roth A, Diederichs S. Molecular biology: Rap and chirp about X inactivation. Nature 2015;521:170–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tregenza T, Butlin RK, Wedell N. Sexual conflict and speciation. Nature 2000;407:149–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhong Z, Liang S, Sanchez-Lopez E, He F, Shalapour S, Lin X-J, et al. New mitochondrial DNA synthesis enables NLRP3 inflammasome activation. Nature 2018;560:198–203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stone CA, Zissu A. The Securitization Markets Handbook. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Gao Y, Japkowicz N, editors. Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 22nd Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Canadian AI 2009 Kelowna, Canada, May 25-27, 2009 Proceedings. vol. 5549. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rao YS, Dutta R. Decentralized Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme with Fast Decryption. In: Decker BD, Dittmann J, Kraetzer C, Vielhauer C, editors. Communications and Multimedia Security: 14th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2013, Magdeburg, Germany, September 25-26, 2013. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 66–81.

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]

Luntz S. Cosmic Lighthouse Disappears From View. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmic-lighthouse-disappears-view/ (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. NASA Procurement: Improving the Management of Delegated Contract Functions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hogue ML. A Case Study of Perspectives on Building School and Community Partnerships. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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]

Koblin J. Cable News Networks Report a Banner Year in 2016. New York Times 2016:B2.

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