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

Mills E (2005) Environment. The specter of fuel-based lighting. Science 308:1263–1264

A journal article with 2 authors

Thoroughman KA, Shadmehr R (2000) Learning of action through adaptive combination of motor primitives. Nature 407:742–747

A journal article with 3 authors

van Loenhout MTJ, de Grunt MV, Dekker C (2012) Dynamics of DNA supercoils. Science 338:94–97

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Jang M, Czoschke NM, Lee S, Kamens RM (2002) Heterogeneous atmospheric aerosol production by acid-catalyzed particle-phase reactions. Science 298:814–817

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wagner K, Doroslovački M (2013) Proportionate-Type Normalized Least Mean Square Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Gorodetskiy AE (ed) (2016) Smart Electromechanical Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

De Salve A, Mori P, Ricci L, et al (2016) Privacy-Preserving Data Allocation in Decentralized Online Social Networks. In: Jelasity M, Kalyvianaki E (eds) Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems: 16th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, DAIS 2016, Held as Part of the 11th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques, DisCoTec 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 6-9, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 47–60

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

Andrew E (2015) The River Nile As Seen From Space. In: IFLScience. 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 (1989) Research and Development: Funding of Jet Aircraft Engines for Fiscal Years 1984-1988. 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

Liang C-C (2013) Fate of bacterial and viral indicators in an advanced wastewater treatment plant. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Kishkovsky S (2014) Tatiana Samoilova, 80, Soviet Movie Star. New York Times B10

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mills 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Thoroughman and Shadmehr 2000; Mills 2005).

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

Two authors: (Thoroughman and Shadmehr 2000)
Three or more authors: (Jang et al. 2002)

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

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