How to format your references using the Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory. 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]

P.E. Krider, Atmospheric science. Deciphering the energetics of lightning, Science. 299 (2003) 669–670.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.H. Orkin, D.R. Higgs, Medicine. Sickle cell disease at 100 years, Science. 329 (2010) 291–292.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I.I. Smolyaninov, Y.-J. Hung, C.C. Davis, Magnifying superlens in the visible frequency range, Science. 315 (2007) 1699–1701.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.I. Lyuksyutova, C.-C. Lu, N. Milanesio, L.A. King, N. Guo, Y. Wang, J. Nathans, M. Tessier-Lavigne, Y. Zou, Anterior-posterior guidance of commissural axons by Wnt-frizzled signaling, Science. 302 (2003) 1984–1988.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.B. Smith, Compendium of Organic Synthetic Methods: Smith/Compendium, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

H.-D. Meyer, E.P.S. John, M. Chankseliani, L. Uribe, eds., Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.S. Gonzalez, K. Washington, Lobular Changes, in: K. Washington (Ed.), Non-Neoplastic Liver Pathology: A Pathologist’s Survival Guide, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 27–36.

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 Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Shift From Electronics To Spintronics Opens Up Possibilities Of Faster Data, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/shift-electronics-spintronics-opens-possibilities-faster-data/ (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, Alternative to Project Seafarer, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Bartaula, Stand Level Growth and Survival Equations for Cutover Sites Loblolly Pine Plantations in the Mid-Gulf Region of Southern United States, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 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]

J. Wagner, Already Loaded With Talent, Cubs May Get a Slugger Back From an Injury, New York Times. (2016) B10.

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	Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
Abbreviation	Simul. Model. Pract. Theory
ISSN (print)	1569-190X
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Software Modelling and Simulation