How to format your references using the International Journal of Simulation Modelling citation style

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

[1]

Peckham, M. (2009). Journal club. A cell biologist ponders an outstanding mystery in muscle formation, Nature, Vol. 458, No. 7242, 1081

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zhang, X.; Zhao, M. (2014). Strain-induced phase transition and electron spin-polarization in graphene spirals, Scientific Reports, Vol. 4, 5699

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen, W.; Shimada, S.; Tanaka, M. (2002). Synthesis and structure of formally hexavalent palladium complexes, Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 295, No. 5553, 308–310

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lu, H.; Seo, Y.-T.; Lee, J.-W.; Moudrakovski, I.; Ripmeester, J. A.; Chapman, N. R.; Coffin, R. B.; Gardner, G.; Pohlman, J. (2007). Complex gas hydrate from the Cascadia margin, Nature, Vol. 445, No. 7125, 303–306

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Jones, N. F. (2008). The JCT Major Project Form, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK

An edited book

[1]

Liu, C. (2014). Optimal Control of Switched Systems Arising in Fermentation Processes, (Z. Gong, Ed.) (Vol. 97), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Acchar, W.; Dultra, E. J. V. (2015). Coffee Industry in Brazil, E. J. V. Dultra (Ed.), Ceramic Materials from Coffee Bagasse Ash Waste, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 23–30

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 Simulation Modelling.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E. (2016, May 16). Supplements Are An Expensive And Potentially Toxic Lucky Dip, IFLScience, IFLScience, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/supplements-are-expensive-and-potentially-toxic-lucky-dip/, accessed 30-10-2018

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. (1995). Aviation Security: FAA Can Help Ensure That Airports’ Access Control Systems Are Cost-Effective (RCED-95-25)Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mann, H. M. (2009). Testing for differentially functioning indicators using mixtures of confirmatory factor analysis models (Doctoral dissertation)University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD

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

[1]

Kenigsberg, B. (2017, September 12). Deep Into Arkansas Gang Life, New York Times, p. C6, C6

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 Simulation Modelling
ISSN (print)	1726-4529
Scope