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

Bourzac K (2014) Microbiome: the bacterial tightrope. Nature 516:S14-6

A journal article with 2 authors

Karsenty G, Ferron M (2012) The contribution of bone to whole-organism physiology. Nature 481:314–320

A journal article with 3 authors

Zobel M, Neder RB, Kimber SAJ (2015) Universal solvent restructuring induced by colloidal nanoparticles. Science 347:292–294

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Nestola F, Korolev N, Kopylova M, et al (2018) CaSiO3 perovskite in diamond indicates the recycling of oceanic crust into the lower mantle. Nature 555:237–241

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov BM (2011) Fundamentals of Ionized Gases. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Fischer-Hübner S, Duquenoy P, Zuccato A, Martucci L (2008) The Future of Identity in the Information Society: Proceedings of the Third IFIP WG 9.2, 9.6/11.6, 11.7/FIDIS International Summer School on The Future of Identity in the Information Society, Karlstad University, Sweden, August 4–10, 2007. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Ferronsky VI, Denisik SA, Ferronsky SV (2011) Perturbed Virial Oscillations of a System. In: Denisik SA, Ferronsky SV (eds) Jacobi Dynamics: A Unified Theory with Applications to Geophysics, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics and Cosmology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 123–137

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) Dramatic Video Of Yesterday’s SpaceX Rocket Explosion, And What It Means For The Company. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/dramatic-video-of-spacex-rocket-explosion-and-what-it-means-for-the-company/. 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 (1989) Federal Research: Determination of the Best Qualified Sites for DOE’s Super Collider. 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

Qin R (2008) Mid -ocean ridge morphology and tectonics: Insights from numerical modeling of faults and dikes. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia 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

MacFARQUHAR N, Kishkovsky S (2015) Russian History Gets a Makeover That Starts With Ivan the Terrible. New York Times A4

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

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