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

Reik W (2007) Stability and flexibility of epigenetic gene regulation in mammalian development. Nature 447:425–432

A journal article with 2 authors

Willimsky G, Blankenstein T (2005) Sporadic immunogenic tumours avoid destruction by inducing T-cell tolerance. Nature 437:141–146

A journal article with 3 authors

Froemke RC, Poo M-M, Dan Y (2005) Spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity depends on dendritic location. Nature 434:221–225

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gibbs HL, Sorenson MD, Marchetti K, et al (2000) Genetic evidence for female host-specific races of the common cuckoo. Nature 407:183–186

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

West BJ, Griffin LA (2005) Biodynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Schiele B, Dey AK, Gellersen H, et al (2007) Ambient Intelligence: European Conference, AmI 2007, Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bowers A, Kalton NJ (2014) Consequences of Completeness. In: Kalton NJ (ed) An Introductory Course in Functional Analysis. Springer, New York, NY, pp 61–82

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 D (2015) Why Are There More Men Than Women? In: IFLScience. 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 (1999) Y2K Computing Challenge: Day One Planning and Operations Guide. 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

Holler JC (2015) A phenomenological case study of finding meaning through the developmental nature of a doctoral program in organization change. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Rashbaum WK, Schwirtz M (2017) City Jails Chief Fires Deputy Accused of Eavesdropping. New York Times A23

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

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