How to format your references using the Mathematical and Computer Modelling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 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

[1]

D. Dickson, Unesco backs “science for debt” plan, Nature 404 (2000) 911.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Bjork, S. Pitnick, Intensity of sexual selection along the anisogamy-isogamy continuum, Nature 441 (2006) 742–745.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.D. Parker, D.E. Burkepile, M.E. Hay, Opposing effects of native and exotic herbivores on plant invasions, Science 311 (2006) 1459–1461.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.K. Sheppard, N.D. McCarthy, D. Falush, M.C.J. Maiden, Convergence of Campylobacter species: implications for bacterial evolution, Science 320 (2008) 237–239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W.T. Federer, F. King, Variations on Split Plot and Split Block Experiment Designs: Federer/Variations on Split Plot and Split Block Experiment Designs, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

D. Avison, G.M. Kasper, B. Pernici, I. Ramos, D. Roode, eds., Advances in Information Systems Research, Education and Practice: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, TC 8, Information Systems, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Buccafurri, L. Fotia, G. Lax, R. Mammoliti, Enhancing Public Digital Identity System (SPID) to Prevent Information Leakage, in: A. Kő, E. Francesconi (Eds.), Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective: 4th International Conference, EGOVIS 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-3, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 57–70.

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 Mathematical and Computer Modelling.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Dog Brains Process Human Speech In The Same Way We Do, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dog-brains-process-human-speech-same-way-we-do/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Discretionary Grants: Education Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Grants Monitoring, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.M. Gatti, Genome-wide analysis of transcriptional regulation in the murine liver, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2010.

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

[1]

J. Poniewozik, TV’s New Jukebox: Songs Steal the Scene, New York Times (2017) AR23.

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	Mathematical and Computer Modelling
Abbreviation	Math. Comput. Model.
ISSN (print)	0895-7177
Scope	Computer Science Applications Modelling and Simulation