How to format your references using the Journal of Grid Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Grid Computing. 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

Knight, P.L.: Physics. The observation of matter wave fluctuations. Science. 310, 631–632 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Keklikoglou, I., De Palma, M.: Cancer: Metastasis risk after anti-macrophage therapy. Nature. 515, 46–47 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lamas-Linares, A., Howell, J.C., Bouwmeester, D.: Stimulated emission of polarization-entangled photons. Nature. 412, 887–890 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Choudhuri, K., Wiseman, D., Brown, M.H., Gould, K., van der Merwe, P.A.: T-cell receptor triggering is critically dependent on the dimensions of its peptide-MHC ligand. Nature. 436, 578–582 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Louis, J.-P.: Control of Synchronous Motors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2011)

An edited book

Demazeau, Y., Pěchoucěk, M., Corchado, J.M., Pérez, J.B. eds: Advances on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems: 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Kutnick, P., Blatchford, P.: Improving the Effectiveness of Collaborative Group Work at KS2: Effects on Pupil Attainment, Classroom Behaviour and Attitudes. In: Blatchford, P. (ed.) Effective Group Work in Primary School Classrooms: The SPRinG Approach. pp. 103–127. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (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 Grid Computing.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Spinal Cord Stimulation Allows Completely Paralyzed Rats To Walk Again

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: NASA Report May Overstate the Economic Benefits of Research and Development Spending. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1977)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Willis, T.Y.: Rare but there: An intersectional exploration of the experiences and outcomes of Black women who studied abroad through community college programs, (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

Walsh, M.W.: Bipartisan Bill Poses Federal Control Over Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Affairs, (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 Grid Computing
Abbreviation	J. Grid Comput.
ISSN (print)	1570-7873
ISSN (online)	1572-9184
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Software