How to format your references using the Soft Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Soft 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

Mervis J (2015) Behind the numbers. Salaries pump up biomedical inflation. Science 349:225

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller L, Douglas BC (2004) Mass and volume contributions to twentieth-century global sea level rise. Nature 428:406–409

A journal article with 3 authors

Dharmawardhana CC, Misra A, Ching W-Y (2014) Quantum mechanical metric for internal cohesion in cement crystals. Sci Rep 4:7332

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Prigozy TI, Naidenko O, Qasba P, et al (2001) Glycolipid antigen processing for presentation by CD1d molecules. Science 291:664–667

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chowdhury D, Stauffer D (2005) Principles of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Milutinović V (2015) Guide to DataFlow Supercomputing: Basic Concepts, Case Studies, and a Detailed Example. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Cetinkaya B (2011) Managing Outside Your Organisation. In: Cetinkaya B, Ewer G, Klaas-Wissing T, et al. (eds) Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Practical Ideas for Moving Towards Best Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 117–151

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 Soft Computing.

Blog post

Carpineti A (2016) Why Do Galaxies Stop Forming Stars? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-do-galaxies-stop-forming-stars/. 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 (1976) Supply Management in the District of Columbia Public Schools. 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

Miller T (2014) A qualitative phenomenological study: Hiring nurses re-entering the workforce after chemical dependence. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Walsh MW (2015) Puerto Rico Turmoil Sinks Sewer Bond. New York Times B1

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Mervis 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Miller and Douglas 2004; Mervis 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Miller and Douglas 2004)
Three or more authors: (Prigozy et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Soft Computing
Abbreviation	Soft Comput.
ISSN (print)	1432-7643
ISSN (online)	1433-7479
Scope	Software Geometry and Topology Theoretical Computer Science