How to format your references using the Journal of Computational Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computational Physics. 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	Download the output style file
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]

M.A. Hoyt, Cell biology. Extinguishing a cell cycle checkpoint, Science 313 (2006) 624–625.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Pulk, J.H.D. Cate, Control of ribosomal subunit rotation by elongation factor G, Science 340 (2013) 1235970.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.B. Ristaino, C.T. Groves, G.R. Parra, PCR amplification of the Irish potato famine pathogen from historic specimens, Nature 411 (2001) 695–697.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Kunishima, Y. Shimada, Y. Tsuji, T. Sato, M. Yamamoto, T. Kumasaka, S. Nakanishi, H. Jingami, K. Morikawa, Structural basis of glutamate recognition by a dimeric metabotropic glutamate receptor, Nature 407 (2000) 971–977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.N. Henriksen, Scale Invariance, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

T. Schlichter, L. Montes, eds., Forests in Development: A Vital Balance, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Du, S. Wu, A.W.-C. Liew, D.K. Smith, H. Yan, Parametric Spectral Analysis of Malaria Gene Expression Time Series Data, in: M. R. Berthold, R.C. Glen, I. Fischer (Eds.), Computational Life Sciences II: Second International Symposium, CompLife 2006, Cambridge, UK, September 27-29, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 32–41.

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 Computational Physics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Y Chromosome- It’s Not Just Sex, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/y-chromosome-its-not-just-sex/ (accessed October 30, 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, Mission Budgeting: Discussion and Illustration of the Concept in Research and Development Programs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Atchison, Caregivers with sibling sets: A curriculum to increase contact and permanency for siblings in out-of-home care, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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]

J. Koblin, Marcia Clark Has Moment to Savor at Emmys, New York Times (2016) C1.

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 Computational Physics
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0021-9991
Scope	Computer Science Applications Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)