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 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. Segal, Material history: Learning from silicon, Nature 483 (2012) S43-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I.B. Levitan, S.M. Cibulsky, Biochemistry. TRP ion channels--two proteins in one, Science 293 (2001) 1270–1271.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L.T. Morran, M.D. Parmenter, P.C. Phillips, Mutation load and rapid adaptation favour outcrossing over self-fertilization, Nature 462 (2009) 350–352.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-H. Sa, G.-H. Kwak, B.R. Lee, D.-H. Park, K. Han, K.-H. Lee, Hydrophobic amino acids as a new class of kinetic inhibitors for gas hydrate formation, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2428.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

U. Wystup, FX Options and Structured Products, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

M. Klusch, M. Rovatsos, T.R. Payne, eds., Cooperative Information Agents X: 10th International Workshop, CIA 2006 Edinburgh, UK, September 11-13, 2006 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.-M. O’Leary, A. Buchanan, Grandfathers: The Parents’ Perspective in the United Kingdom, in: A. Buchanan, A. Rotkirch (Eds.), Grandfathers: Global Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 89–104.

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]

J. Davis, Fracking Set To Take Place In England For First Time In Five Years, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/fracking-set-take-place-england-first-time-five-years/ (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, Highways and Transit: Private Sector Sponsorship of and Investment in Major Projects Has Been Limited, 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]

T.E. Wellman, Employment Discrimination against Military Spouses: Illegal Contrary to Popular Belief and Practice, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017.

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. Harwood, Why Trumpism May Not Endure, New York Times (2017) A27.

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