How to format your references using the Parallel Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Parallel 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	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.D. Clayton, History of science. Hoyle’s equation, Science 318 (2007) 1876–1877.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Zeng, R. Song, Controlling chloride ions diffusion in concrete, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3359.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.B. Plotkin, J. Dushoff, H.B. Fraser, Detecting selection using a single genome sequence of M. tuberculosis and P. falciparum, Nature 428 (2004) 942–945.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.A. Dalton, W.-P. Hsieh, G.T. Hohensee, D.G. Cahill, A.F. Goncharov, Effect of mass disorder on the lattice thermal conductivity of MgO periclase under pressure, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2400.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Snopek, The Complete Guide to Portfolio Construction and Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

T.F. Fässler, ed., Zintl Phases: Principles and Recent Developments, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.-C. Oh, A.J. Hildreth, Energy Decision-Making 2: Demand Response Option Contract Decision Based on Stochastic Programming, in: A.J. Hildreth (Ed.), Analytics for Smart Energy Management: Tools and Applications for Sustainable Manufacturing, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 109–135.

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 Parallel Computing.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Illegal Trade In Great Apes Vastly Underestimated, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/illegal-trade-in-great-apes-vastly-underestimated/ (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, Review of the Upward Bound Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W. Dusenberry, Integrating depth psychology in adolescent court-mandated treatment facilities: Increasing treatment efficacy and client engagement, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2017.

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]

K. Crow, Lake Placid It Isn’t: Ferries’ Wakes Stir Up a Fuss, New York Times (2003) 145.

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	Parallel Computing
Abbreviation	Parallel Comput.
ISSN (print)	0167-8191
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design Computer Networks and Communications Hardware and Architecture Software Theoretical Computer Science