How to format your references using the Journal of Cloud Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cloud Computing. 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

Fauci AS (2005) Race against time. Nature 435:423–424

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang G, Or D (2014) Trophic interactions induce spatial self-organization of microbial consortia on rough surfaces. Sci Rep 4:6757

A journal article with 3 authors

Ramu Y, Xu Y, Lu Z (2006) Enzymatic activation of voltage-gated potassium channels. Nature 442:696–699

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bernard A, Lécuyer C, Vincent P, et al (2010) Regulation of body temperature by some Mesozoic marine reptiles. Science 328:1379–1382

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rumelhard C, Algani C, Billabert A-L (2013) Microwave Photonic Links. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Venkataraman H, Muntean G-M (2012) Cognitive Radio and its Application for Next Generation Cellular and Wireless Networks. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Dennis A, Marshall M (2016) Investigations. In: Collins B, Bradshaw E (eds) Bowel Dysfunction: A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Professionals. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 33–50

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 Journal of Cloud Computing.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Dwarf Star Emits Solar Flare 10,000 Times Stronger Than Anything Seen From Our Sun. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dwarf-star-emits-solar-flare-10000-times-stronger-anything-seen-our-sun/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1977) Handling of Bid Protests Involving Automatic Data Processing Equipment Procurements. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sutton DS (2015) Structural and geophysical interpretation of Roatán Island, Honduras, Western Caribbean. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Burfoot A, Hirsch GA (2012) The Honorable Clan Of the Long-Distance Runner. New York Times SP11

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	Journal of Cloud Computing
ISSN (online)	2192-113X
Scope