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

[Kroto, 2010] Kroto, H. W.: ‘Working at the coal face’; Nature, 467, 7317 (2010), S13.

A journal article with 2 authors

[Bozic and Nowak, 2013] Bozic, I., Nowak, M. A.: ‘Cancer. Unwanted evolution’; Science (New York, N.Y.), 342, 6161 (2013), 938–939.

A journal article with 3 authors

[Baron-Cohen et al., 2005] Baron-Cohen, S., Knickmeyer, R. C., Belmonte, M. K.: ‘Sex differences in the brain: implications for explaining autism’; Science (New York, N.Y.), 310, 5749 (2005), 819–823.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

[Rondelez et al., 2005] Rondelez, Y., Tresset, G., Nakashima, T., Kato-Yamada, Y., Fujita, H., Takeuchi, S., Noji, H.: ‘Highly coupled ATP synthesis by F1-ATPase single molecules’; Nature, 433, 7027 (2005), 773–777.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[McMaster, 2005] McMaster, M. C.: ‘LC/MS’; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2005).

An edited book

[Masters and Palsson, 2009] Human Adult Stem Cells: (1st ed., Vol. 7). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands (2009).

A chapter in an edited book

[Sun and Zhang, 2015] Sun, W., Zhang, M.: ‘The Culturalization of Humans by Morality: Morality and Human Cultivation and Improvement’; In M. Zhang (Ed.), The “New Culture”: From a Modern Perspective. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (2015), 87–106.

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

[O`Callaghan, 2016] O`Callaghan, J.: ‘Boeing Delays Launch Of Its New Manned Spacecraft To 2018’; (2016, May 15). Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/boeing-delays-launch-its-new-manned-spacecraft-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, 2002] Government Accountability Office: ‘FAA Alaska: Weak Controls Resulted in Improper and Wasteful Purchases’ (No. GAO-02-606); Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office (2002).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[Clendening, 2009] Clendening, R. J.: ‘A structured methodology for unifying functional analysis with systems analysis to enhance system behavior knowledge’ (Doctoral dissertation); George Washington University, Washington, DC (2009).

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

[Burghardt, 2006] Burghardt, L. F.: ‘The Legacies They Left’; New York Times (2006, January 1), 14LI6.

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