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

Ehlers, M.D., 2003. Eppendorf 2003 prize-winning essay. Ubiquitin and the deconstruction of synapses. Science 302, 800–801.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore, W.B., Webb, A.A.G., 2013. Heat-pipe Earth. Nature 501, 501–505.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bingenheimer, J.B., Brennan, R.T., Earls, F.J., 2005. Firearm violence exposure and serious violent behavior. Science 308, 1323–1326.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Andrus, C.F.T., Crowe, D.E., Sandweiss, D.H., Reitz, E.J., Romanek, C.S., 2002. Otolith delta 18O record of mid-Holocene sea surface temperatures in Peru. Science 295, 1508–1511.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

AIChE technical manual, 1998. Dow’s Chemical Exposure Index Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Wolfson, A., 2015. Sustainability through Service: Perspectives, Concepts and Examples, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bundgaard, H., Cold, G.E., 2008. Studies of Regional Subdural Pressure Gradients During Craniotomy, in: Cold, G.E., Juul, N. (Eds.), Monitoring of Cerebral and Spinal Haemodynamics During Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 89–102.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Is This The End Of Particle Physics As We Know It? Let’s Hope Not [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/end-particle-physics-we-know-it-let-s-hope-not/ (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, 1987. Financing Higher Education: Examples Comparing Existing and Proposed Student Aid Programs (No. HRD-87-88FS). 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

Dobson, E.C., 2012. Elizabeth C. Dobson Consulting and Design: A business plan for aging-in-place resources (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

Yablonsky, L., 2011. Madonna Redesigned. New York Times ST3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ehlers, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Ehlers, 2003; Moore and Webb, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Moore and Webb, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Andrus et al., 2002)

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