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]

D.G. Hardie, Cell biology. Why starving cells eat themselves, Science 331 (2011) 410–411.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Fernández, M. Lynch, Non-adaptive origins of interactome complexity, Nature 474 (2011) 502–505.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Blaha, R.E. Stanley, T.A. Steitz, Formation of the first peptide bond: the structure of EF-P bound to the 70S ribosome, Science 325 (2009) 966–970.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Wang, Y. Hu, J. Meng, C. Li, An ossified Meckel’s cartilage in two Cretaceous mammals and origin of the mammalian middle ear, Science 294 (2001) 357–361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Wesche, Physical Properties of High-Temperature Superconductors, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

J.L. Fiadeiro, P.D. Mosses, F. Orejas, eds., Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques: 17th International Workshop, WADT 2004, Barcelona, Spain, March 27-29, 2004. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Baltzakis, A. Argyros, M. Lourakis, P. Trahanias, Tracking of Human Hands and Faces through Probabilistic Fusion of Multiple Visual Cues, in: A. Gasteratos, M. Vincze, J.K. Tsotsos (Eds.), Computer Vision Systems: 6th International Conference, ICVS 2008 Santorini, Greece, May 12-15, 2008 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 33–42.

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]

K. Hamilton, How The Horse Can Help Us Answer One Of Evolution’s Biggest Questions, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-the-horse-can-help-us-answer-one-of-evolutions-biggest-questions/ (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, Implementation of the Small Business Innovation Development Act of 1982, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Bermudez, The effects of Hispanic parent-adolescent biculturalism disparity on male adolescent delinquency, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2008.

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]

S. Kishkovsky, Yevgeny Kolobov, 57; Founded an Opera Theater, New York Times (2003) A25.

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