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

Heckenberger, M.: Journal club. An archaeologist looks at South America’s early complex societies. Nature. 458, 683 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Van Roy, P., Briggs, D.E.G.: A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid. Nature. 473, 510–513 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Koo, B., Nottenburg, C., Pardey, P.G.: Intellectual property. Plants and intellectual property: an international appraisal. Science. 306, 1295–1297 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paler, A., Devitt, S.J., Nemoto, K., Polian, I.: Mapping of topological quantum circuits to physical hardware. Sci. Rep. 4, 4657 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Owen, J.S., Fiedler-Kelly, J.: Introduction to Population Pharmacokinetic / Pharmacodynamic Analysis with Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey (2014)

An edited book

Purushothaman, S., Abraham, R. eds: Livelihood Strategies in Southern India: Conservation and Poverty Reduction in Forest Fringes. Springer India, New Delhi (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Mossakowski, T., Pawłowski, W., Sannella, D., Tarlecki, A.: Parchments for CafeOBJ Logics. In: Iida, S., Meseguer, J., and Ogata, K. (eds.) Specification, Algebra, and Software: Essays Dedicated to Kokichi Futatsugi. pp. 66–91. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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 Scientific Computing.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Rapid Evolution Lets Tasmanian Devils Fight Back Against Fatal Cancer, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rapid-evolution-tasmanian-devils-fight-back-against-fatal-cancer/

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: Geographic Information Systems: Information on Federal Use and Coordination. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Abraham, S.R.: Using Self-Monitoring and Goal Setting to Increase Swimming in Adults, (2015)

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

Rothenberg, B.: Again Flashing Classic Form, Venus Williams Advances, (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 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