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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Elliott, T.: Geophysics. Caught offside. Science. 295, 55–57 (2002)

A journal article with 2 authors

Caputo, J.M., Collins, S.H.: Prosthetic ankle push-off work reduces metabolic rate but not collision work in non-amputee walking. Sci. Rep. 4, 7213 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Weeks, S.J., Currie, B., Bakun, A.: Massive emissions of toxic gas in the Atlantic. Nature. 415, 493–494 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pannuzzo, M., Raudino, A., Milardi, D., La Rosa, C., Karttunen, M.: α-helical structures drive early stages of self-assembly of amyloidogenic amyloid polypeptide aggregate formation in membranes. Sci. Rep. 3, 2781 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia, T., Anzur, T.: Power Performance. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2011)

An edited book

Balla, T., Wymann, M., York, J.D. eds: Phosphoinositides II: The Diverse Biological Functions. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Bagnara, R., Rodríguez-Carbonell, E., Zaffanella, E.: Generation of Basic Semi-algebraic Invariants Using Convex Polyhedra. In: Hankin, C. and Siveroni, I. (eds.) Static Analysis: 12th International Symposium, SAS 2005, London, UK, September 7-9, 2005. Proceedings. pp. 19–34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

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.: Bee Fossils Shed Light On The Environment In The Late Pleistocene, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bee-fossils-shed-light-environment-late-pleistocene/

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: School District Officials Face Problems in Dealing With Asbestos in Their Schools. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1985)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Morris, L.: Evolving the leadership model of the American theatre to forge a fiscally and artistically secure future, (2010)

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

Kelly, M.: THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton’s Camp Says It Is Wary Of Perot Inroads, (1992)

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