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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computational Physics: X. 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

[1]

S.R. Forrest, The path to ubiquitous and low-cost organic electronic appliances on plastic, Nature 428 (2004) 911–918.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.T. Kaufman, A.K. Churchland, Cognitive neuroscience: sensory noise drives bad decisions, Nature 496 (2013) 172–173.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.L. Tsakmakidis, A.D. Boardman, O. Hess, “Trapped rainbow” storage of light in metamaterials, Nature 450 (2007) 397–401.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.L. Badano, C.C. Leitch, S.J. Ansley, H. May-Simera, S. Lawson, R.A. Lewis, P.L. Beales, H.C. Dietz, S. Fisher, N. Katsanis, Dissection of epistasis in oligogenic Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Nature 439 (2006) 326–330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Kunz, Do Species Exist?, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

J. van Hemert, C. Cotta, eds., Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization: 8th European Conference, EvoCOP 2008, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Y. HaCohen-Kerner, A. Kass, A. Peretz, Abbreviation Disambiguation: Experiments with Various Variants of the One Sense per Discourse Hypothesis, in: E. Kapetanios, V. Sugumaran, M. Spiliopoulou (Eds.), Natural Language and Information Systems: 13th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2008 London, UK, June 24-27, 2008 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 27–39.

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: X.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Houseplants could one day power TVs, computers, and more, IFLScience (2014).

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, Department of Housing and Urban Development: Lack of Accountability for Computer Equipment Leaves These Assets Vulnerable to Loss or Misappropriation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.D. Dill, Nonparametric alternative to Poly-k test in animal tumorigenicity studies, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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. Poniewozik, In the Better of Two Hereafters, but Still Crabby About It, New York Times (2016) C6.

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: X
ISSN (print)	2590-0552
Scope