How to format your references using the Memetic Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Memetic Computing. 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

Bolker J (2012) Model organisms: There’s more to life than rats and flies. Nature 491:31–33

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake JJ, Testa P (2005) The “solar model problem” solved by the abundance of neon in nearby stars. Nature 436:525–528

A journal article with 3 authors

Platt T, Fuentes-Yaco C, Frank KT (2003) Marine ecology: Spring algal bloom and larval fish survival. Nature 423:398–399

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xia H, Zhu D, Luo Z, et al (2013) Hierarchically structured Co₃O₄@Pt@MnO₂ nanowire arrays for high-performance supercapacitors. Sci Rep 3:2978

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bouchet O (2012) Wireless Optical Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Clark BW (2009) Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mulkidjanian AY (2011) Abiotic Photosynthesis. In: Gargaud M, Amils R, Quintanilla JC, et al (eds) Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 1–3

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 Memetic Computing.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) New cancer-hunting ‘nano-robots’ to seek and destroy tumours. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-cancer-hunting-nano-robots-seek-and-destroy-tumours/. Accessed 30 Oct 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) NASA Management Challenges: Human Capital and Other Critical Areas Need to be Addressed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gilbert C (2017) Factors Associated With Dietetic Interns’ Knowledge of Sodium and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Johnson G (2016) The Brain Versus the Mind. New York Times D3

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	Memetic Computing
ISSN (print)	1865-9284
ISSN (online)	1865-9292
Scope	General Computer Science Control and Optimization