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

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

Williams, R.: Biomarkers: warning signs. Nature. 475, S5-7 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Dennis, C., Byrne, N.: Harvesting biotechnology. Nature. 429, 1 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang, Y., Kirmizialtin, S., Sanchez, I.C.: Dynamic void distribution in myoglobin and five mutants. Sci. Rep. 4, 4011 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Maiolino, R., Schneider, R., Oliva, E., Bianchi, S., Ferrara, A., Mannucci, F., Pedani, M., Sogorb, M.R.: A supernova origin for dust in a high-redshift quasar. Nature. 431, 533–535 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Molino Sr., L.N.: Emergency Incident Management Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2006)

An edited book

Samorì, P. ed: STM and AFM Studies on (Bio)molecular Systems: Unravelling the Nanoworld. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Ferrario, B.: Uniqueness and Absolute Continuity for Semilinear SPDE’s. In: Dalang, R.C., Dozzi, M., and Russo, F. (eds.) Seminar on Stochastic Analysis, Random Fields and Applications VII: Centro Stefano Franscini, Ascona, May 2011. pp. 85–94. Springer, Basel (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 Scientific Computing.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: This Awkward Feathered Dinosaur Was Almost Blown Up By Dynamite

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: HEW’s Refund Policies of Basic Grants and Other Student Aid Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1976)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Packer-Kinlaw, D.: Anxious journeys: Past, present, and construction of identity in American travel writing, (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

Vecsey, G.: A Run to Twilight at the Millrose Games, (2010)

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 Scientific Computing
Abbreviation	J. Sci. Comput.
ISSN (print)	0885-7474
ISSN (online)	1573-7691
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Software General Engineering Theoretical Computer Science