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

Smaglik, P. (2004) Patching a leaky pipeline. Nature, 427 (6975): 657.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tan, S. & Lü, J. (2014) Characterizing the effect of population heterogeneity on evolutionary dynamics on complex networks. Scientific reports, 4: 5034.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bergmann, D.C., Lukowitz, W. & Somerville, C.R. (2004) Stomatal development and pattern controlled by a MAPKK kinase. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304 (5676): 1494–1497.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lin, H., Yao, C., Zhang, X., Zhang, H., Wang, D., Zhang, Q., Ma, Y., Awaji, S. & Watanabe, K. (2014) Strongly enhanced current densities in Sr0.6K0.4Fe2As2 + Sn superconducting tapes. Scientific reports, 4: 4465.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kagan, E. & Ben-Gal, I. (2013) Probabilistic Search for Tracking Targets. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Azaïez, M., El Fekih, H. & Hesthaven, J.S. eds. (2014) Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations - ICOSAHOM 2012: Selected papers from the ICOSAHOM conference, June 25-29, 2012, Gammarth, Tunisia. Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Hashimoto, H., Uragami, C. & Cogdell, R.J. (2016) Carotenoids and Photosynthesis. In: C. Stange ed. Carotenoids in Nature: Biosynthesis, Regulation and Function. Subcellular Biochemistry. Springer International Publishing: Cham, pp.111–139.

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

Davis, J. (2017) All-Female Hybrid Salamanders Take Genes From Males Of Three Different Species To Breed [Internet]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/allfemale-hybrid-salamanders-take-genes-from-males-of-three-different-species-to-breed/, 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 (1982) Federal Information Systems Remain Highly Vulnerable to Fraudulent, Wasteful, Abusive, and Illegal Practices. 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

Vento-Wilson, M. (2012) The role of the speech-language pathologist and augmentative and alternative communication with acute care patients with severe communication impairments. 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

St. John Kelly, E. (2013) Built Inside a Church, A Log Cabin Isn’t Near Its End. Scout’s Honor. New York Times: A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik, 2004; Tan & Lü, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tan & Lü, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lin et al., 2014)

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