How to format your references using the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. 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 (2002) Norway: Turning oil into science. Nature 417:4–5

A journal article with 2 authors

O’Grady M, O’Hare G (2012) Computer science. How smart is your city? Science 335:1581–1582

A journal article with 3 authors

De’ath G, Lough JM, Fabricius KE (2009) Declining coral calcification on the Great Barrier Reef. Science 323:116–119

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang DW, Mitchell DA, Teague WJ, et al (2005) Extreme waves under Hurricane Ivan. Science 309:896

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vitale J, Len IH (2008) Zero Limits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Folgueras Méndez J, Aznielle Rodríguez TY, Calderón Marín CF, et al (2013) V Latin American Congress on Biomedical Engineering CLAIB 2011 May 16-21, 2011, Habana, Cuba: Sustainable Technologies for the Health of All. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Nicolai N, Crestani A (2015) Is There Still an Indication for Primary RPLND in Clinical Stage I Non-seminoma? In: Krege S (ed) Diagnosis and Management of Testicular Cancer: The European Point of View. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 29–54

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 the Brazilian Computer Society.

Blog post

Fang J (2016) There’s A Second Layer Of Information In DNA. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/second-layer-of-information-in-dna/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1989) GAO’s Views on SDIO’s Phase I Cost Estimate. 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

Sutton DL (2015) Alumni perceptions of the role of field education in professional preparation. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Murphy MJO (2015) Friday File. New York Times C34

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 the Brazilian Computer Society
Abbreviation	J. Braz. Comput. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0104-6500
ISSN (online)	1678-4804
Scope	General Computer Science