How to format your references using the Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques. 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

Rainey, P.B.: Unity from conflict. Nature. 446, 616 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

To, T.-L., Maheshri, N.: Noise can induce bimodality in positive transcriptional feedback loops without bistability. Science. 327, 1142–1145 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Desai, S.A., Bezrukov, S.M., Zimmerberg, J.: A voltage-dependent channel involved in nutrient uptake by red blood cells infected with the malaria parasite. Nature. 406, 1001–1005 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cheng, X., Su, X., Chen, X., Zhao, H., Bo, C., Xu, J., Bai, H., Ning, K.: Biological ingredient analysis of traditional Chinese medicine preparation based on high-throughput sequencing: the story for Liuwei Dihuang Wan. Sci. Rep. 4, 5147 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Turner, J.R., Durham, T.A.: Integrated Cardiac Safety: Assessment Methodologies for Noncardiac Drugs in Discovery, Development, and Postmarketing Surveillance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2008)

An edited book

Leite, J., Torroni, P., Ågotnes, T., Boella, G., Torre, L. van der eds: Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems: 12th International Workshop, CLIMA XII, Barcelona, Spain, July 17-18, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Ju, H., Yang, X., Dou, H., Song, J.: Variable Precision Multigranulation Rough Set and Attributes Reduction. In: Peters, J.F., Skowron, A., Li, T., Yang, Y., Yao, J., and Nguyen, H.S. (eds.) Transactions on Rough Sets XVIII. pp. 52–68. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

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 Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Chimps Outsmart Humans When It Comes To Game Theory

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

Government Accountability Office: Need for Full Cost Reporting and Participating Agreement on SEASAT-A Project. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1978)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Maddox, C.E.: Postcolonial play: Encounters with sport and physical culture in contemporary India, (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

Williams, J.: Still Hunting Jack, (2016)

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 Computer Virology and Hacking Techniques
ISSN (print)	2274-2042
ISSN (online)	2263-8733
Scope	Computer Science (miscellaneous) Computational Theory and Mathematics Hardware and Architecture Software