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]

Bevan, M. (2011). Genomics: endless variation most beautiful, Nature, Vol. 477, No. 7365, 415–416

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Witt, E.; Ashworth, A. (2002). Biomedicine. D-Day for BRCA2, Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 297, No. 5581, 534

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Vandermeer, J.; Perfecto, I.; Philpott, S. M. (2008). Clusters of ant colonies and robust criticality in a tropical agroecosystem, Nature, Vol. 451, No. 7177, 457–459

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Anopheles gambiae 1000 Genomes Consortium; Data analysis group; Partner working group; Sample collections—Angola:; Burkina Faso:; Cameroon:; Gabon:; Guinea:; Guinea-Bissau:; Kenya:; Uganda:; Crosses:; Sequencing and data production; Web application development; Project coordination. (2017). Genetic diversity of the African malaria vector Anopheles gambiae, Nature, Vol. 552, No. 7683, 96–100

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Walker, M. (2013). Happy-People-Pills For All, Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

[1]

Clark, J. A.; Paige, R. F.; Polack, F. A. C.; Brooke, P. J. (Eds.). (2006). Security in Pervasive Computing: Third International Conference, SPC 2006, York, UK, April 18-21, 2006. Proceedings (Vol. 3934), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Halfond, W. G. J.; Orso, A. (2007). Detection and Prevention of SQL Injection Attacks, M. Christodorescu; S. Jha; D. Maughan; D. Song; C. Wang (Eds.), Malware Detection, Springer US, Boston, MA, 85–109

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. (2015, June 4). South Korea Fights To Halt MERS Outbreak, IFLScience, IFLScience, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/south-korea-fights-halt-mers-outbreak/, 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. (2002). National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Leadership and Systems Needed to Effect Financial Management Improvements (GAO-02-551T)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]

McGowan, H. C. (2008). The military experience: Perceptions from senior military officers’ wives (Doctoral dissertation)Capella University, Minneapolis, MN

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]

Mazzetti, M.; Goldman, A.; Schmidt, M. S. (2017, August 2). Under Trump, Shell of a Force In Syria Swiftly Lost C.I.A. Aid, New York Times, p. A1, A1

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