How to format your references using the Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems. 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]

K. Heki, Geophysics. A tale of two earthquakes, Science. 332 (2011) 1390–1391.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y.Y. Wan, R.A. Flavell, Regulatory T-cell functions are subverted and converted owing to attenuated Foxp3 expression, Nature. 445 (2007) 766–770.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Nolan, I. James, S. Mallal, HIV/AIDS. HIV: experiencing the pressures of modern life, Science. 307 (2005) 1422–1424.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Biron, P. Libros, D. Sagi, D. Mirelman, E. Moses, Asexual reproduction: “midwives” assist dividing amoebae, Nature. 410 (2001) 430.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.M. Shelby, C.M. McKune, Small Animal Anesthesia Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

M.A. Hayat, ed., Tumors of the Central Nervous System, Volume 13: Types of Tumors, Diagnosis, Ultrasonography, Surgery, Brain Metastasis, and General CNS Diseases, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Cheptsov, Z. Huang, Making Web-Scale Semantic Reasoning More Service-Oriented: The Large Knowledge Collider, in: A. Haller, G. Huang, Z. Huang, H.-Y. Paik, Q.Z. Sheng (Eds.), Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2011 and 2012 Workshops: Combined WISE 2011 and WISE 2012 Workshops, Sydney Australia, October 12-14, 2011 and Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 13–26.

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 Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, Here’s How Much Of The US Would Need To Be Covered In Wind Turbines To Power The Nation, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/heres-how-much-the-us-would-need-to-be-covered-in-wind-turbines-to-power-the-nation/ (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, ADP Budget: Trends in SSA’s Information Technology Systems Budget, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Wang, Talking to Strangers: Chinese Youth and Social Media, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2013.

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. Hollander, T, Her Name Is Twindexane, New York Times. (2009) CY6.

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	Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems
Abbreviation	Sustain. Comput. Inform. Syst.
ISSN (print)	2210-5379
Scope	General Computer Science Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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