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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computational Science. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

L. Kogleck, Building a powerhouse, Nature 528 (2015) S166-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.T. Bieging, L.D. Attardi, Cancer: A piece of the p53 puzzle, Nature 520 (2015) 37–38.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.R. Hunt, M.C. Corballis, R.D. Gray, Animal behaviour: Laterality in tool manufacture by crows, Nature 414 (2001) 707.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.J. Difilippantonio, J. Zhu, H.T. Chen, E. Meffre, M.C. Nussenzweig, E.E. Max, T. Ried, A. Nussenzweig, DNA repair protein Ku80 suppresses chromosomal aberrations and malignant transformation, Nature 404 (2000) 510–514.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L.C.R. Russell, C.T.J. Hodgetts, C.P.F. Mahoney, N. Castle, Disaster Rules, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

K.-I. Chung, K. Sohn, M. Yung, eds., Information Security Applications: 9th International Workshop, WISA 2008, Jeju Island, Korea, September 23-25, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.P. DeMuri, E.R. Wald, Microbiology of Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Rhinosinusitis in Children, in: C.C. Chang, G.A. Incaudo, M.E. Gershwin (Eds.), Diseases of the Sinuses: A Comprehensive Textbook of Diagnosis and Treatment, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 89–97.

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 Science.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, 3,500-Year-Old Golden Rings Tell Story Of The War-Riddled Rise Of Greek Civilization, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/3500yearold-golden-rings-story-warriddles-rise-greek-civilization/ (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, [Comments on Applicability of Vacancies Act to Various Labor and Education Officers], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C.A. Lamanna, The structure and function of subalpine ecosystems in the face of climate change, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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. Finnegan, ‘You Don’t Call Me,’ New York Times (2017) A15.

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 Science
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1877-7503
Scope	General Computer Science Modelling and Simulation Theoretical Computer Science