How to format your references using the Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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. Baselga J. Targeting tyrosine kinases in cancer: the second wave. Science. 2006;312:1175–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Legler B, Moore G. East German academics faced unfair hurdles. Nature. 2000;403:130.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Matzke M, Matzke AJ, Kooter JM. RNA: guiding gene silencing. Science. 2001;293:1080–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Giacco F, Ciamarra MP, Saggese L, de Arcangelis L, Lippiello E. Non-monotonic dependence of the friction coefficient on heterogeneous stiffness. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bonnet P. Enterprise Data Governance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Li K, Fei M, Irwin GW, Ma S, editors. Bio-Inspired Computational Intelligence and Applications: International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2007, Shanghai, China, September 14-17, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Donnevert G, Uhlig S, Moser T. Ring Test Data Evaluation. In: Moser H, Römbke J, editors. Ecotoxicological Characterization of Waste: Results and Experiences of an International Ring Test. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. p. 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 Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Climate Change Is Happening In Your Garden: Here’s How To Spot It [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-change-is-happening-in-your-garden-heres-how-to-spot-it/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Funding for Entitlement Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1978 Jan. Report No.: PAD-78-46.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Vallaster JR. Recognizing and Supporting the Forgotten Poverty Frontier: Exploring Suburban School Poverty in Elementary Schools [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2019.

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. Saslow L. Graduation Rates Rise, and Bar Is Raised. New York Times. 2008 Aug 17;LI2.

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	Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences
Abbreviation	Adv. Model. Simul. Eng. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2213-7467
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