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]

D.M. Jonas, Chemistry. Optical analogs of 2D NMR, Science. 300 (2003) 1515–1517.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.S. Fisher, H.E. Hoekstra, Competition drives cooperation among closely related sperm of deer mice, Nature. 463 (2010) 801–803.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Biteau, J. Labarre, M.B. Toledano, ATP-dependent reduction of cysteine-sulphinic acid by S. cerevisiae sulphiredoxin, Nature. 425 (2003) 980–984.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.E. Alsdorf, J.M. Melack, T. Dunne, L.A. Mertes, L.L. Hess, L.C. Smith, Interferometric radar measurements of water level changes on the Amazon flood plain, Nature. 404 (2000) 174–177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Recho, Fracture Mechanics and Crack Growth, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Y. Biollay, Matematica si parte!: Nozioni di base ed esercizi per il primo anno di Ingegneria, Springer, Milano, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Ferrario, Uniqueness and Absolute Continuity for Semilinear SPDE’s, in: R.C. Dalang, M. Dozzi, F. Russo (Eds.), Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications VII: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2011, Springer, Basel, 2013: pp. 85–94.

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]

K. Evans, You’re Not Lazy, You Have A High IQ, Study Suggests, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/youre-not-lazy-you-have-a-high-iq-study-suggests/ (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, Educational Laboratory and Research and Development Center Programs Need To Be Strengthened, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P. Penix-Tadsen, Marketing marginality: Resistance and commodification in contemporary Latin American cultural production, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2009.

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]

M.W. Walsh, Shuttle’s End Leaves NASA A Pension Bill, New York Times. (2011) 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

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