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

Roelfsema, P.R.: Neuroscience. Attention--voluntary control of brain cells. Science. 332, 1512–1513 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Li, H., Durbin, R.: Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences. Nature. 475, 493–496 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Vance, D., Teagle, D.A.H., Foster, G.L.: Variable Quaternary chemical weathering fluxes and imbalances in marine geochemical budgets. Nature. 458, 493–496 (2009)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Banerjee, R., Phan, A., Wang, B., Knobler, C., Furukawa, H., O’Keeffe, M., Yaghi, O.M.: High-throughput synthesis of zeolitic imidazolate frameworks and application to CO2 capture. Science. 319, 939–943 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nógrádi, M.: Stereoselective Synthesis. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany (2007)

An edited book

Lioy, J., Sobol, S.E. eds: Disorders of the Neonatal Airway: Fundamentals for Practice. Springer, New York, NY (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Boër, C.R., Pedrazzoli, P., Bettoni, A., Sorlini, M.: Assessment of Sustainable MC Production in a Selected Test Case. In: Pedrazzoli, P., Bettoni, A., and Sorlini, M. (eds.) Mass Customization and Sustainability: An assessment framework and industrial implementation. pp. 143–167. Springer, London (2013)

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

Andrew, E.: Scientists Discover A New Taste, https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/sweet-bitter-sour-theres-new-taste-town-and-its-fat/

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: Small Computers in the Federal Government: Management Is Needed To Realize Potential and Prevent Problems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1983)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dao, L.-A.T.: Comparison of peripherally inserted intravenous catheter complication prevalence: Before and after changing a 96-hour routine replacement standard, (2017)

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

Cooper, M.: Hurricane Closes Houston Arts Center, (2017)

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

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