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]

P. Lieberman, Neuroscience. Synapses, language, and being human, Science 342 (2013) 944–945.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.M. Zahn, J. Travis, Mutation and Human Disease. Hunting Mutations, Targeting Disease. Introduction, Science 349 (2015) 1470–1471.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W.A. Saturno, D. Stuart, B. Beltrán, Early Maya writing at San Bartolo, Guatemala, Science 311 (2006) 1281–1283.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T. Mignot, J.W. Shaevitz, P.L. Hartzell, D.R. Zusman, Evidence that focal adhesion complexes power bacterial gliding motility, Science 315 (2007) 853–856.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.M. Ganda, Dentist’s Guide to Medical Conditions, Medications, and Complications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

D. Mark, Beginning iPhone Development with Swift 2: Exploring the iOS SDK, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Lemon, Sending Out a Tweet, in: N. Lemon, S. Garvis (Eds.), Being “In and Out”: Providing Voice to Early Career Women in Academia, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2014: pp. 43–54.

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, Playing Video Games Could Actually Physically Alter Your Brain, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/playing-video-games-could-actually-physically-alter-your-brain/ (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, State Department: Progress and Challenges in Addressing Management Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.D. Mathes, Exploring Factors That Enabled Financial Advisors and Their Firms to Improve Professional Performance After 2008, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2014.

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]

M.D. Shear, G. Thrush, M. Haberman, Trump Response To Violent Rally Shocks His Allies, New York Times (2017) 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	Journal of Computational Physics
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0021-9991
Scope	Computer Science Applications Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)