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

Jenuwein T (2002) Molecular biology. An RNA-guided pathway for the epigenome. Science 297:2215–2218

A journal article with 2 authors

Knight JC, Russell PSJ (2002) Applied optics. New ways to guide light. Science 296:276–277

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Ent F, Amos LA, Löwe J (2001) Prokaryotic origin of the actin cytoskeleton. Nature 413:39–44

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gnatt AL, Cramer P, Fu J, et al (2001) Structural basis of transcription: an RNA polymerase II elongation complex at 3.3 A resolution. Science 292:1876–1882

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belsey C (2011) A Future for Criticism. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Conner WC, Fraissard J (2006) Fluid Transport in Nanoporous Materials. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Kovinich N, Arnason JT, De Luca V, Miki B (2011) Coloring Soybeans with Anthocyanins? In: Gang DR (ed) The Biological Activity of Phytochemicals. Springer, New York, NY, pp 47–57

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 (2015) Researchers Identify Potential New Targets For Cancer Treatments. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/researchers-identify-potential-new-targets-cancer-treatments-embargoed/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of the Telecommunications Industry. 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

Austin CA (2013) Intravenous Exposure of Pregnant Mice to Silver Nanoparticles: Silver Tissue Distribution and Effects in Maternal and Extra-Embryonic Tissues and Embryos. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Schwartz J (2017) Where Do All the Disgraced C.E.O.s Go? New York Times BU12

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