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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Tsay Y-F (2014) Plant science: How to switch affinity. Nature 507:44–45

A journal article with 2 authors

Spaldin NA, Fiebig M (2005) Materials science. The renaissance of magnetoelectric multiferroics. Science 309:391–392

A journal article with 3 authors

Bingenheimer JB, Brennan RT, Earls FJ (2005) Firearm violence exposure and serious violent behavior. Science 308:1323–1326

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tseng C-K, Chen W-T, Chen K-H, et al (2013) A self-assembled microbonded germanium/silicon heterojunction photodiode for 25 Gb/s high-speed optical interconnects. Sci Rep 3:3225

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klöpffer W (2012) Verhalten und Abbau von Umweltchemikalien. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Huber BA (2005) African Biodiversity: Molecules, Organisms, Ecosystems. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Syed MN, Principe JC, Pardalos PM (2012) Correntropy in Data Classification. In: Sorokin A, Murphey R, Thai MT, Pardalos PM (eds) Dynamics of Information Systems: Mathematical Foundations. Springer, New York, NY, pp 81–117

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

Davis J (2017) Scientists Plan To Drill Into Earthquake Fault Line From The Bottom Of A Gold Mine. In: IFLScience. 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 (2002) Aviation Security: Registered Traveler Program Policy and Implementation Issues. 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

Wilday D (2014) Soulmaking within the destructive side of God seeing through monotheism’s holy warrior 9/11 to prehistory. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Marx L (2017) A Nascar Driver Finds His ‘Shooting Star.’ New York Times ST9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tsay 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Spaldin and Fiebig 2005; Tsay 2014).

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

Two authors: (Spaldin and Fiebig 2005)
Three or more authors: (Tseng et al. 2013)

About the journal

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