How to format your references using the Mathematics and Computers in Simulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM). 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]

E.P. Greenberg, Bacterial communication: tiny teamwork, Nature 424(6945) (2003) 134.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.P. Körding,, D.M. Wolpert, Bayesian integration in sensorimotor learning, Nature 427(6971) (2004) 244–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Alimardani,, S. Nishio,, H. Ishiguro, Humanlike robot hands controlled by brain activity arouse illusion of ownership in operators, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2396.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Reddy,, S.-Y. Jang,, R.A. Segalman,, A. Majumdar, Thermoelectricity in molecular junctions, Science 315(5818) (2007) 1568–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Schattke,, R. Díez Muiño, Quantum Monte Carlo Programming, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

T.-C. Zhang,, P. Ouyang,, S. Kaplan,, B. Skarnes, Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Applied Biotechnology (ICAB 2012): Volume 3, Vol. 251, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V.K. Sharma,, M. Sohn, Oxidation of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins by Chlorine Dioxide. Implications for Water Treatment, in: E. Lichtfouse, J. Schwarzbauer, D. Robert (Eds.), Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World: Volume 2: Remediation of Air and Water Pollution, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2012, pp. 237–54.

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 Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, You Probably Have Herpes. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/pretty-much-everybody-s-got-herpes/. 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, Children’s Television Act: FCC Could Improve Efforts to Oversee Enforcement and Provide Public Information, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.G. Orbinati, Spirituality and learning: An exploration into the understanding of spirituality in adult education. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 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]

L. Lee, Not at First Sight, or Even the First Dozen, New York Times (2013) ST12.

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	Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
Abbreviation	Math. Comput. Simul.
ISSN (print)	0378-4754
Scope	General Computer Science Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Numerical Analysis Theoretical Computer Science