How to format your references using the Journal of Simulation citation style

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

Pinheiro, M.J. (2013) A variational method in out-of-equilibrium physical systems. Scientific reports, 3: 3454.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lavier, L.L. & Manatschal, G. (2006) A mechanism to thin the continental lithosphere at magma-poor margins. Nature, 440 (7082): 324–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Branch, T.A., Hively, D.J. & Hilborn, R. (2013) Is the ocean food provision index biased? Nature, 495 (7442): E5-6; discussion E7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rambaut, A., Pybus, O.G., Nelson, M.I., Viboud, C., Taubenberger, J.K. & Holmes, E.C. (2008) The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus. Nature, 453 (7195): 615–619.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gup, B.E. (2011) Banking and Financial Institutions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bose, K. ed. (2015) Proteases in Apoptosis: Pathways, Protocols and Translational Advances. 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hemsley-Brown, J. & Oplatka, I. (2016) Organisational Factors Influencing Higher Education Consumer Choice. In: I. Oplatka ed. Higher Education Consumer Choice. Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, pp.94–117.

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 Simulation.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016) 10,000 Endangered ‘Scrotum Frogs’ Have Died Near Lake Titicaca [Internet]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/10000-endangered-scrotum-frogs-have-died-near-lake-titicaca/, accessed 30 October 2018.

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 (1991) Arts Funding: Public Funding Profiles of the NEA States and Cities. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Whitehead, C.F. (2010) Teacher perceptions of the effects of parentification on social interactions in the school setting. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA.

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. (2009) A Cafe That Caters. New York Times: NJ9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Pinheiro, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Pinheiro, 2013; Lavier & Manatschal, 2006).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Lavier & Manatschal, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Rambaut et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Simulation
Abbreviation	J. Simul.
ISSN (print)	1747-7778
ISSN (online)	1747-7786
Scope	Software Modelling and Simulation