How to format your references using the Computers in Industry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers in Industry. 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	Download the output style file
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]

C.J. Burrow, Comment on “Separate evolutionary origins of teeth from evidence in fossil jawed vertebrates,” Science 300 (2003) 1661; author reply 1661.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Andersson, D. Read, Group size and cultural complexity, Nature 511 (2014) E1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Akihiko, Y. Morioka, S.K. Behera, Role of climate variability in the heatstroke death rates of Kanto region in Japan, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5655.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Maity, S. Mehta, I. Haque, K. Dhar, S. Sarkar, S.K. Banerjee, S. Banerjee, Pancreatic tumor cell secreted CCN1/Cyr61 promotes endothelial cell migration and aberrant neovascularization, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4995.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

B. Linder, Thermodynamics and Introductory Statistical Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

K.L. Dougherty, The Calculus of Consent and Constitutional Design, Springer, New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W.Y. Chen, C.Y. Jim, Assessment and Valuation of the Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Forests, in: M.M. Carreiro, Y.-C. Song, J. Wu (Eds.), Ecology, Planning, and Management of Urban Forests: International Perspectives, Springer, New York, NY, 2008: pp. 53–83.

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 Computers in Industry.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Granddad The Lungfish, World’s Oldest Aquarium Fish, Dies At Ridiculously Old Age, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/granddad-the-lungfish-worlds-oldest-aquarium-fish-dies-at-ridiculously-old-age/ (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, Student Mentoring Programs: Education’s Monitoring and Information Sharing Could Be Improved, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Yahyai, Optimization of a method for testing ballast water for enterococci and an investigation on the occurrence of antibiotic resistance in vibrio cholerae, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

J. Barron, The Coda to a Remarkable Career: Barbara Cook Has Retired, New York Times (2017) A19.

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	Computers in Industry
Abbreviation	Comput. Ind.
ISSN (print)	0166-3615
Scope	General Computer Science General Engineering