How to format your references using the International Journal of Parallel Programming citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Parallel Programming. 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

Harnett, M.M.: Immunology. B cells spread and gather. Science. 312, 709–710 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wijffels, R.H., Barbosa, M.J.: An outlook on microalgal biofuels. Science. 329, 796–799 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Weber, W., Riesen, S., Siegmann, H.C.: Magnetization precession by hot spin injection. Science. 291, 1015–1018 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, J., Sun, B., Huang, X., Chen, S., Wang, G.: Honeycomb-like porous gel polymer electrolyte membrane for lithium ion batteries with enhanced safety. Sci. Rep. 4, 6007 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cragg, P.J.: A Practical Guide to Supramolecular Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2006)

An edited book

Jackson, A.C. ed: Viral Infections of the Human Nervous System. Springer, Basel (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Harrabi, I., Louati, T., Lévesque, M., Maier, M.: Testbed Design and Co-simulation of PEV Coordination Schemes Over Integrated Fiber-Wireless Smart Grid Communications Infrastructures. In: Rajakaruna, S., Shahnia, F., and Ghosh, A. (eds.) Plug In Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids: Integration Techniques. pp. 99–128. Springer, Singapore (2015)

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 of Parallel Programming.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: Thousands Of Galaxies On Death Row As They Are Stripped Of Their Gas, https://www.iflscience.com/space/thousands-of-galaxies-on-death-row-as-they-are-stripped-of-their-gas/

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: Federal Capitation Support and Its Role in the Operation of Medical Schools. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1978)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Szurgyi, A.A.: Leadership competencies required of Army officers to counter the Improvised Explosive Device threat, (2012)

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

Wagner, J.: Giants Are Said to Set Record (For Now) for Closer, (2016)

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	International Journal of Parallel Programming
Abbreviation	Int. J. Parallel Program.
ISSN (print)	0885-7458
ISSN (online)	1573-7640
Scope	Information Systems Software Theoretical Computer Science