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]

R.H. Thomas, Evolution. Wingless insects and plucked chickens, Science. 299 (2003) 1854–1855.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Swinbanks, D. Cyranoski, Taiwan backs experience in quest for biotech success, Nature. 407 (2000) 417–426.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.L. Acuña, Á. López-Urrutia, S. Colin, Faking giants: the evolution of high prey clearance rates in jellyfishes, Science. 333 (2011) 1627–1629.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Maksymovych, S. Jesse, P. Yu, R. Ramesh, A.P. Baddorf, S.V. Kalinin, Polarization control of electron tunneling into ferroelectric surfaces, Science. 324 (2009) 1421–1425.

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, Species Conservation in Managed Habitats, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

H.J. Deeg, Hematologic Malignancies: Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Khosravy, M.R. Alsharif, K. Yamashita, An Efficient ICA Based Approach to Multiuser Detection in MIMO OFDM Systems, in: S. Plass, A. Dammann, S. Kaiser, K. Fazel (Eds.), Multi-Carrier Systems & Solutions 2009, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 47–56.

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, Nope, Your Intelligence Probably Isn’t Solely Inherited From Your Mother, IFLScience. (2016).

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, Grant Programs: Design Features Shape Flexibility, Accountability, and Performance Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.E. Crosby, A phenomenological heuristic study of psychosocial factors that contribute to African American females’ HIV seroconversion, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 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. Koblin, J.W. Peters, Diverse Group of Rookie Moderators Is Chosen for the Presidential Debates, New York Times. (2016) A13.

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

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