How to format your references using the Journal of Universal Computer Science citation style

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

[Frenking, 2000] Frenking, G.: ‘Another noble gas conquered’; Nature, 406, 6798 (2000), 836–837.

A journal article with 2 authors

[Rodriguez and Laio, 2014] Rodriguez, A., Laio, A.: ‘Machine learning. Clustering by fast search and find of density peaks’; Science (New York, N.Y.), 344, 6191 (2014), 1492–1496.

A journal article with 3 authors

[Yu et al., 2014] Yu, D. Y. W., Hoster, H. E., Batabyal, S. K.: ‘Bulk antimony sulfide with excellent cycle stability as next-generation anode for lithium-ion batteries’; Scientific Reports, 4 (2014), 4562.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

[Matsubara et al., 2013] Matsubara, S., Ding, Q., Miyazaki, Y., Kuwahata, T., Tsukasa, K., Takao, S.: ‘mTOR plays critical roles in pancreatic cancer stem cells through specific and stemness-related functions’; Scientific Reports, 3 (2013), 3230.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[Krimpmann, 2015] Krimpmann, A.: ‘Principles of Group Accounting under IFRS’; Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (2015).

An edited book

[Omatu et al., 2016] Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 13th International Conference: (Vol. 474). Cham: Springer International Publishing (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

[Illuminati, 2013] Illuminati, G.: ‘Transnational Inquiries in Criminal Matters and Respect for Fair Trial Guarantees’; In S. Ruggeri (Ed.), Transnational Inquiries and the Protection of Fundamental Rights in Criminal Proceedings: A Study in Memory of Vittorio Grevi and Giovanni Tranchina. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2013), 15–24.

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 Universal Computer Science.

Blog post

[Andrews, 2016] Andrews, R.: ‘Sea Snakes Have A Unique Sense For Detecting Underwater Movement’; (2016, June 8). Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-snakes-have-a-unique-sense-for-detecting-underwater-movement/

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, 1990] Government Accountability Office: ‘Stafford Student Loans: Millions of Dollars in Loans Awarded to Ineligible Borrowers’ (No. IMTEC-91-7); Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (1990).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[Sumi, 2015] Sumi, S. J.: ‘Eco-Hydrology Driven Evaluation of Statistically Downscaled Precipitation CMIP5 Climate Model Simulations over Louisiana’ (Doctoral dissertation); University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA (2015).

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

[Vecsey, 2010] Vecsey, G.: ‘Underfunded and Over the Top’; New York Times (2010, September 9), B20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Universal Computer Science
Abbreviation	J. Univers. Comput. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0948-695x
ISSN (online)	0948-6968
Scope	General Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science