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]

Stringer C. Palaeontology: The 100-year mystery of Piltdown Man. Nature 2012;492:177–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kovács IA, Barabási A-L. Network science: Destruction perfected. Nature 2015;524:38–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Paradise J, Andrews L, Holbrook T. Intellectual property. Patents on human genes: an analysis of scope and claims. Science 2005;307:1566–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Aguilaniu H, Gustafsson L, Rigoulet M, Nyström T. Asymmetric inheritance of oxidatively damaged proteins during cytokinesis. Science 2003;299:1751–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Duffy DJ. Finite Difference Methods in Financial Engineering. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Yoong LH. Model-Driven Design Using IEC 61499: A Synchronous Approach for Embedded and Automation Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

De Petro P, Battiston B, Matteotti R, Petraz M, Molino D. Omero: diafisi. In: Faletti C, editor. Traumatologia scheletrica: Imaging integrato clinico-radiologico, Milano: Springer; 2016, p. 81–97.

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. Amazing Photographs & Video Of Snake Devouring Crocodile. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/amazing-photographs-video-snake-devouring-crocodile/ (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. Airline Competition: DOT and Justice Oversight of Eastern Air Lines’ Bankruptcy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Quintero MC. Constructing a Clinical Research Data Management System. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2017.

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]

Gurley G. London To Harlem Via Chelsea. New York Times 2013:E1.

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

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