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]

J. Rine, Cell biology. Twists in the tale of the aging yeast, Science 310 (2005) 1124–1125.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Kilger, K. Bartenbach, Patent law. New rules for German professors, Science 298 (2002) 1173–1175.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Deuss, J.C.E. Irving, J.H. Woodhouse, Regional variation of inner core anisotropy from seismic normal mode observations, Science 328 (2010) 1018–1020.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Charnoz, A. Brahic, P.C. Thomas, C.C. Porco, The equatorial ridges of Pan and Atlas: terminal accretionary ornaments?, Science 318 (2007) 1622–1624.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.A. Carrasco, M. Johnston, Non-Binary Error Control Coding for Wireless Communication and Data Storage, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

T.-H. Kim, A.C.-C. Chang, M. Li, C. Rong, C.Z. Patrikakis, D. Ślęzak, eds., Communication and Networking: International Conference, FGCN 2010, Held as Part of the Future Generation Information Technology Conference, FGIT 2010, Jeju Island, Korea, December 13-15, 2010. Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.C. Sanders, R. Koll, R.O. Dull, CYP2D6: Where It All Began, in: C. Marcucci, M.P. Hutchens, E.D. Wittwer, T.N. Weingarten, J. Sprung, W.T. Nicholson, K. Lalwani, D.G. Metro, R.O. Dull, C.E. Swide, F.J. Seagull, J.R. Kirsch, N.B. Sandson (Eds.), A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions, Springer, New York, NY, 2015: pp. 29–32.

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]

E. Andrew, Inventor Develops Synthetic “Leaf” That Produces Oxygen, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/inventor-develops-synthetic-leaf-produces-oxygen/ (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: How State Agencies Adopt New Pavement Technologies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.N. Dinneny, End of August, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

G. Johnson, Science, Lost in a Legal Maze, New York Times (2015) D3.

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