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

Goldston D (2007) A word in the right place. Nature 445:698

A journal article with 2 authors

Allen MR, Ingram WJ (2002) Constraints on future changes in climate and the hydrologic cycle. Nature 419:224–232

A journal article with 3 authors

Smith DR, Pendry JB, Wiltshire MCK (2004) Metamaterials and negative refractive index. Science 305:788–792

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee HC, Kim SJ, Kim KS, et al (2000) Remission in models of type 1 diabetes by gene therapy using a single-chain insulin analogue. Nature 408:483–488

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yoder CH, Leber PA, Thomsen MW (2010) The Bridge to Organic Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ferry RJ Jr (2011) Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Othman S, Khan JI, Nafa F (2016) Does Location Matter? The Efficiency of Request Propagation Based on Location in Online Social Networks. In: Meiselwitz G (ed) Social Computing and Social Media: 8th International Conference, SCSM 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17–22, 2016. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–58

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

Fang J (2014) Report: How Climate Change Impacts America. 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 (2014) Surface Transportation: Actions Needed to Improve Documentation of Key Decisions in the TIGER Discretionary Grant Program. 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

Schewe EM (2016) Re-establishing Connections: Listening to Women Psychology Students Talk about Recovery. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Kishkovsky S (2002) In Blast Police Call Accident, Muscovites See Terrorist Hand. New York Times A8

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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