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

Webb, S.C.: The Earth’s “hum” is driven by ocean waves over the continental shelves. Nature. 445, 754–756 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Higgins, M.J., Graham, S.J.H.: Intellectual property. Balancing innovation and access: patent challenges tip the scales. Science. 326, 370–371 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Shih, W.M., Quispe, J.D., Joyce, G.F.: A 1.7-kilobase single-stranded DNA that folds into a nanoscale octahedron. Nature. 427, 618–621 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Onodera, R., Motoyama, K., Okamatsu, A., Higashi, T., Arima, H.: Potential use of folate-appended methyl-β-cyclodextrin as an anticancer agent. Sci. Rep. 3, 1104 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levander, C.F.: Where is American Literature? Wiley Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2013)

An edited book

Jackson, A.C. ed: Viral Infections of the Human Nervous System. Springer, Basel (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Preissler, S., Habich, D., Lehner, W.: An XML-Based Streaming Concept for Business Process Execution. In: Filipe, J. and Cordeiro, J. (eds.) Enterprise Information Systems: 12th International Conference, ICEIS 2010, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal, June 8-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 60–75. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

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

Hale, T.: Pope Francis Says Destroying The Environment Should Be A Sin

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: Air Traffic Control: Inadequate Planning Increases Risk of Computer Failures in Los Angeles. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1990)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dunn, L.K.: Hiring manager’s consideration process for ex-offender job applicants: A grounded theory study, (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

Feeney, K.: QUICK BITE/Cranford; Endless Options in a Wrap, (2006)

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