How to format your references using the International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering (JMC). 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

Leggett, T., Physics. Superfluidity in a Crystal?, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 305, no. 5692, pp. 1921–22, September 24, 2004.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lollar, B. S. and McCollom, T. M., Geochemistry: Biosignatures and Abiotic Constraints on Early Life, Nature, vol. 444, no. 7121, pp. E18; discussion E18-9, December 14, 2006.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kokoouline, V., Greene, C. H. and Esry, B. D., Mechanism for the Destruction of H+3 Ions by Electron Impact, Nature, vol. 412, no. 6850, pp. 891–94, August 30, 2001.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Chen, X. J., Wang, X., Kaufman, B. A. and Butow, R. A., Aconitase Couples Metabolic Regulation to Mitochondrial DNA Maintenance, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 307, no. 5710, pp. 714–17, February 4, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rigo, M., Formal Languages, Automata and Numeration Systems 1, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

An edited book

Breckle, S.-W., Yair, A., and Veste, M. Eds., Arid Dune Ecosystems: The Nizzana Sands in the Negev Desert, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XXIX, 475 p. 240 illus., 26 illus. in color, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Baffa, A., Poggi, M. and Feijó, B., Adaptive Automated Storytelling Based on Audience Response, in Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2015: 14th International Conference, ICEC 2015, Trondheim, Norway, September 29 - Ocotober 2, 2015, Proceedings, K. Chorianopoulos M. Divitini J. Baalsrud Hauge L. Jaccheri and R. Malaka, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 45–58, 2015.

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 International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering.

Blog post

Davis, J., The Last 12-Month Period Was The Hottest For The Ninth Time In A Row, IFLScience, July 12, 2016.

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, Managing for Results: Observations on NASA’s Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Plan, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, NSIAD-98-181, Jun. 5, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Daly, K. M., Cinema 3.0: How Digital and Computer Technologies Are Changing Cinema, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 2008.

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

Hodgman, J., Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times, June 30, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Leggett, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Leggett, 2004; Lollar et al., 2006).

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

Two authors: (Lollar et al., 2006)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering
ISSN (print)	1543-1649
ISSN (online)	1940-4352
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