How to format your references using the Journal of Symbolic Computation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Symbolic Computation. 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	Download the output style file
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

Horvat, M., 2011. Science in Europe. The new framework for EU research and innovation. Science 334, 1066–1068.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts, R.G., Sutikna, T., 2013. Michael John Morwood (1950-2013). Nature 500, 401.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nugent, F.S., Penick, E.C., Kauer, J.A., 2007. Opioids block long-term potentiation of inhibitory synapses. Nature 446, 1086–1090.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, F., Yan, W., Chuang, Y.-J., Zhen, Z., Xie, J., Pan, Z., 2013. Photostimulated near-infrared persistent luminescence as a new optical read-out from Cr³⁺-doped LiGa₅O₈. Sci. Rep. 3, 1554.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Placzek, D., Bielecki, R., Messing, M., Schwarzer, F., Tunnel, 2016. Zielgenau bis ans Ende des Tunnels. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Lee, R.S.T., Loia, V. (Eds.), 2007. Computational Intelligence for Agent-based Systems, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Anubhuti Garg, Mugdha Gupta, Garvit Bansal, Bharavi Mishra, Vikas Bajpai, 2016. Do Bad Smells Follow Some Pattern?, in: Satapathy, S.C., Bhatt, Y.C., Joshi, A., Mishra, D.K. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2015, Volume 1, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer, Singapore, pp. 39–46.

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 Symbolic Computation.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Why You Should Go Meat-Free For One Day A Year, According To Science [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1992. NASA Issues (No. OCG-93-27TR). 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

Lim, R.H.-J., 2017. A stylistic analysis of and performance suggestions for Robert Muczynski’s Second Piano Sonata, Opus 22 (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

Steel, E., 2017. On the Cusp Of a Capstone. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Horvat, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Horvat, 2011; Roberts and Sutikna, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Sutikna, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Symbolic Computation
Abbreviation	J. Symb. Comput.
ISSN (print)	0747-7171
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory Computational Mathematics