How to format your references using the Serdica Journal of Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Serdica Journal of Computing (SJC). 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

[1] Gould, J. Learning from nature’s best, Nature. 519 (2015) S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1] Bloodgood, B.L., and B.L. Sabatini. Neuronal activity regulates diffusion across the neck of dendritic spines, Science. 310 (2005) 866–869.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1] Schaedler, T.A., A.J. Jacobsen, and W.B. Carter. Materials science. Toward lighter, stiffer materials, Science. 341 (2013) 1181–1182.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

[1] Raffaele, S., R.A. Farrer, L.M. Cano, D.J. Studholme, D. MacLean, M. Thines, R.H.Y. Jiang, et al. Genome evolution following host jumps in the Irish potato famine pathogen lineage, Science. 330 (2010) 1540–1543.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1] Morocco, C.C., C.M. Aguilar, C. Bershad, A.W. Kotula, and A. Hindin. Supported Literacy for Adolescents. San Francisco, CA, USA: Jossey-Bass.

An edited book

[1] Wang, G.-Y., J.F. Peters, A. Skowron, and Y. Yao (Eds). Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology: First International Conference, RSKT 2006, Chongquing, China, July 24-26, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

[1] Webb, J.F., J.C. Montgomery, and J. Mogdans. Bioacoustics and the Lateral Line System of Fishes, In: Fish Bioacoustics: With 81 Illustrations, (Eds: Webb, J.F., R.R. Fay, and A.N. Popper), New York, NY: Springer: pp. 145–182.

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 Serdica Journal of Computing.

Blog post

[1] Luntz, S. Wearable Sweat Tests Could Be Pain-Free Future Of Controlling Diabetes, IFLScience. (2017).

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. Subcontract Estimate For E-2c Passive Detection Systems in Prime Contract With Grumman Aerospace Corporation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1] He, H. Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Flows in a Pulse Detonation Engine by the Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006.

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] Koblin, J. NBCUniversal Buys TV Rights to ‘Harry Potter,’ New York Times. (2016) B2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [3, 4].
This sentence cites four references [3, 4, 7, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Serdica Journal of Computing
ISSN (print)	1312-6555
ISSN (online)	1314-7897
Scope