How to format your references using the Future Generation Computer Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Future Generation Computer Systems. 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	Download the output style file
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]

P. Boyer, Being human: Religion: bound to believe?, Nature 455 (2008) 1038–1039.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.P. Ostriker, P. Steinhardt, New light on dark matter, Science 300 (2003) 1909–1913.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Veríssimo, M.A. Cochrane, C. Souza Jr, Ecology. National forests in the Amazon, Science 297 (2002) 1478.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.J. Weldon, T.E. Fumal, G.P. Biasi, K.M. Scharer, Geophysics. Past and future earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault, Science 308 (2005) 966–967.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Geman, Agricultural Finance, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

M.F. Dollard, A. Shimazu, R. Bin Nordin, P. Brough, M.R. Tuckey, eds., Psychosocial Factors at Work in the Asia Pacific, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.S. Williams, J. Wong-Leung, Voids and Nanocavities in Silicon, in: H. Bernas (Ed.), Materials Science with Ion Beams, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 113–146.

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 Generation Computer Systems.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Disco Clam Puts On Flashing Light Show To Scare Off Predators, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/disco-clam-puts-flashing-light-show-scare-predators/ (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, Bilingual Education: A New Look at the Research Evidence, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.E. Lynch, Financial regulation and economic performance: A descriptive correlation study of American financial institutions, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2013.

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]

M.M. Grynbaum, A Network vs. the President, New York Times (2017) B1.

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 Generation Computer Systems
Abbreviation	Future Gener. Comput. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0167-739X
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software