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]

Bunk S. Sandia scientists develop instruments at the crossroads. Nature 2001;410:128–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Casasanto D, Gordon P. Crying “Whorf.” Science 2005;307:1721–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Milinski M, Semmann D, Krambeck H-J. Reputation helps solve the “tragedy of the commons.” Nature 2002;415:424–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Raghuraman MK, Winzeler EA, Collingwood D, Hunt S, Wodicka L, Conway A, et al. Replication dynamics of the yeast genome. Science 2001;294:115–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McSween TE. Values-Based Safety Process. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Oswalt TD, Gilmore G, editors. Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 5: Galactic Structure and Stellar Populations. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Monnet C, Klug C, De Baets K. Evolutionary Patterns of Ammonoids: Phenotypic Trends, Convergence, and Parallel Evolution. In: Klug C, Korn D, De Baets K, Kruta I, Mapes RH, editors. Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015, p. 95–142.

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]

O`Callaghan J. A Company Has Launched A Rocket From A Balloon For The First Time. IFLScience 2017.

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. Air Traffic Control: Challenges Facing FAA’s Modernization Program. 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]

Galyer DL. The Influence of Reference Objects on Vector-Based Memory Representations. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2019.

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]

Crow K. Abingdon Square Park: Small Site, Never-Ending Debate. New York Times 2002:148.

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