How to format your references using the International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering (JMC). 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

Neier, R., Chemistry. A Two-Catalyst Photochemistry Route to Homochiral Rings, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 344, no. 6182, pp. 368–69, April 25, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hor, H. and Tafti, M., Physiology. How Much Sleep Do We Need?, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 325, no. 5942, pp. 825–26, August 14, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Verschure, P. F. M. J., Voegtlin, T. and Douglas, R. J., Environmentally Mediated Synergy between Perception and Behaviour in Mobile Robots, Nature, vol. 425, no. 6958, pp. 620–24, October 9, 2003.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Barends, T. R. M., Hartmann, E., Griese, J. J., Beitlich, T., Kirienko, N. V., Ryjenkov, D. A., Reinstein, J., Shoeman, R. L., Gomelsky, M. and Schlichting, I., Structure and Mechanism of a Bacterial Light-Regulated Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterase, Nature, vol. 459, no. 7249, pp. 1015–18, June 18, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goudon, T., Mathematics for Modeling and Scientific Computing, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

Ahrar, K. and Gupta, S. Eds., Percutaneous Image-Guided Biopsy, New York, NY: Springer, X, 375 p. 302 illus., 98 illus. in color, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Pettit, P., Law, Liberty and Reason, in Reasonableness and Law, G. Bongiovanni G. Sartor and C. Valentini, Eds., Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 109–28, 2009.

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 International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering.

Blog post

Andrew, E., MH17 Crash Report Establishes The Cause, But Only Criminal Investigation Can Find Those Responsible, IFLScience, October 15, 2015.

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, Information Technology: DOD Needs to Improve Process for Ensuring Interoperability of Telecommunications Switches, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-02-681, Jun. 28, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Brown, J. R., Trajectories of Parents’ Experiences in Discovering, Reporting, and Living with the Aftermath of Middle School Bullying, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2010.

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

Saslow, L., Suffolk Bill Focuses On Day Laborers, New York Times, February 4, 2007.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neier, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Neier, 2014; Hor et al., 2009).

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

Two authors: (Hor et al., 2009)
Three or more authors: (Barends et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering
ISSN (print)	1543-1649
ISSN (online)	1940-4352
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