How to format your references using the Granular Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Granular Computing. 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

Harley D (2013) Scholarly communication: cultural contexts, evolving models. Science 342:80–82

A journal article with 2 authors

Jia T, Pósfai M (2014) Connecting core percolation and controllability of complex networks. Sci Rep 4:5379

A journal article with 3 authors

Watson EB, Thomas JB, Cherniak DJ (2007) 40Ar retention in the terrestrial planets. Nature 449:299–304

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Park J-O, Tsuru T, Kodaira S, et al (2002) Splay fault branching along the Nankai subduction zone. Science 297:1157–1160

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Verdu J (2012) Oxidative Ageing of Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hsiao GC (2008) Boundary Integral Equations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Krauss JK (2009) History of Stereotactic Surgery in Germany. In: Lozano AM, Gildenberg PL, Tasker RR (eds) Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 53–58

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 Granular Computing.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) What’s With All The Red Spots On The Olympic Athletes? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/whats-with-all-the-red-spots-on-the-olympic-athletes/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2008) Health Information Technology: HHS Has Taken Important Steps to Address Privacy Principles and Challenges, Although More Work Remains. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bozorgchami B (2017) Time and Bandwidth Efficiency in Transmission of Telemedicine and In-Hospital Patient Data. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Leguizamo J (2016) ‘Too Bad You’re Latin.’ New York Times A27

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Harley 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Harley 2013; Jia and Pósfai 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Jia and Pósfai 2014)
Three or more authors: (Park et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Granular Computing
Abbreviation	Granul. Comput.
ISSN (print)	2364-4966
ISSN (online)	2364-4974
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