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]

D.M. Eagleman, Comment on “The involvement of the orbitofrontal cortex in the experience of regret,” Science 308(5726) (2005) 1260; author reply 1260.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.D. Huynh,, J.T. Lee, Inheritance of a pre-inactivated paternal X chromosome in early mouse embryos, Nature 426(6968) (2003) 857–62.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Smilkov,, C.A. Hidalgo,, L. Kocarev, Beyond network structure: How heterogeneous susceptibility modulates the spread of epidemics, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4795.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Shinya,, M. Ebina,, S. Yamada,, M. Ono,, N. Kasai,, Y. Kawaoka, Avian flu: influenza virus receptors in the human airway, Nature 440(7083) (2006) 435–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Leddra, Time Matters, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

F.M. Singer, Research On and Activities For Mathematically Gifted Students, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Richez-Battesti,, G. Leseul, Cooperative Banks in France: Emergence, Mutations and Issues, in: S. Karafolas (Ed.), Credit Cooperative Institutions in European Countries, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016, pp. 55–81.

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]

E. Andrew, Test Track To Be Built For Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Train. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-and-fastest-train-earth/. 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, Telecommunications: Federal and State Universal Service Programs and Challenges to Funding, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Lucky-Medford, A gendered approach to synaesthesia using the poetry of John Keats and Emily Dickinson. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 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. Barron, Allegories of 2 Boroughs Prepare for a Homecoming, New York Times (2016) A22.

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