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.J. Watts, A twenty-first century science, Nature 445 (2007) 489.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Z. Zhao, E.M. Arruda, Materials science. An internal cure for damaged polymers, Science 344 (2014) 591–592.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Cho, J.B. Lee, J. Hong, Controlled release of an anti-cancer drug from DNA structured nano-films, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4078.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy, A. Tovar-Sanchez, F.-X. Fu, D.G. Capone, E.J. Carpenter, D.A. Hutchins, The impact of surface-adsorbed phosphorus on phytoplankton Redfield stoichiometry, Nature 432 (2004) 897–901.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Homer, M.L. Leibowitz, Inside the Yield Book, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M.A. Khamashta, ed., Hughes Syndrome: Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Second Edition, Springer, London, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.K. Mehlotra, P.A. Zimmerman, Resistance to Antimalarial Drugs: Parasite and Host Genetic Factors, in: P. Arese (Ed.), Malaria: Genetic and Evolutionary Aspects, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006: pp. 81–124.

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, Genetically Modified Cows Show Increased Tuberculosis Resistance, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genetically-modified-cows-show-increased-tuberculosis-resistance/ (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, What Assurance Does Office of Education’s Eligibility Process Provide?, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Elder, A Mixed-Method Investigation of the Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment Pilot Program at a Private Midwestern University, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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

[1]

J.L. Dorman, Damien Chazelle on Los Angeles and Its Charms, New York Times (2017) TR2.

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