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

Atreya, S.: Planetary science. Titan’s organic factory. Science. 316, 843–845 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, G.X., Poo, M.-M.: Requirement of TRPC channels in netrin-1-induced chemotropic turning of nerve growth cones. Nature. 434, 898–904 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Fry, S.N., Sayaman, R., Dickinson, M.H.: The aerodynamics of free-flight maneuvers in Drosophila. Science. 300, 495–498 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kural, C., Kim, H., Syed, S., Goshima, G., Gelfand, V.I., Selvin, P.R.: Kinesin and dynein move a peroxisome in vivo: a tug-of-war or coordinated movement? Science. 308, 1469–1472 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ollivier, J.-P., Torrenti, J.-M., Carcassès, M.: Physical Properties of Concrete and Concrete Constituents. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2012)

An edited book

Liu, C., Chang, J., Yang, A. eds: Information Computing and Applications: Second International Conference, ICICA 2011, Qinhuangdao, China, October 28-31, 2011. Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, Y., Chen, L.: Control of Chaotic Attitude Motion. In: Chen, L. (ed.) Chaos in Attitude Dynamics of Spacecraft. pp. 131–163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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

Andrew, E.: 9,000-Year-Old Case Of Ritualistic Beheading That May Be Oldest In Americas, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/9000-year-old-case-ritualistic-beheading-may-be-oldest-americas/

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: Higher Education: Institutions’ Reported Data Collection Burden Is Higher Than Estimated but Can Be Reduced through Increased Coordination. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2010)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peng, E.: Teaching and Coaching Brazilian Jiujitsu: An Instructional Manual, (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

Wagner, J.: Cespedes Displays Healthy Swing in Return, but Legs Are Rarely Tested, (2017)

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