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. Batty, Sociology. A theory of city size, Science. 340 (2013) 1418–1419.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.D. Scott, T. Pawson, Cell signaling in space and time: where proteins come together and when they’re apart, Science. 326 (2009) 1220–1224.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Gagneux, J.J. Moore, A. Varki, The ethics of research on great apes, Nature. 437 (2005) 27–29.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Matsuura, E. Dwek, M. Meixner, M. Otsuka, B. Babler, M.J. Barlow, J. Roman-Duval, C. Engelbracht, K. Sandstrom, M. Lakićević, J.T. van Loon, G. Sonneborn, G.C. Clayton, K.S. Long, P. Lundqvist, T. Nozawa, K.D. Gordon, S. Hony, P. Panuzzo, K. Okumura, K.A. Misselt, E. Montiel, M. Sauvage, Herschel detects a massive dust reservoir in supernova 1987A, Science. 333 (2011) 1258–1261.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Q.A. Xu, T.L. Madden, Analytical Methods for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Toxicology, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M. Stephens, Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Hingston, Reinforcement Or Transformation, in: J. Etim (Ed.), Introduction to Gender Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa: A Reader, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2016: pp. 65–76.

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, Sakurai’s Object Evolution Witnessed in Real Time, 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, Federally Leased Vehicles: Agencies Should Strengthen Assessment Processes to Reduce Underutilized Vehicles, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.-C. Hung, Allocation of Jobs and Resources to Work Centers, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006.

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]

S. LaFRANIERE, D.D. Kirkpatrick, K.P. Vogel, Guest at Trump Tower Meeting Has Aided Close Allies of Putin, New York Times. (2017) A1.

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