How to format your references using the International Journal of Parallel Programming citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Parallel Programming. 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

Ruttimann, J.: Cell mates. Nature. 450, 756–757 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Fabian, A.C., Miller, J.M.: Astronomy. Black holes reveal their innermost secrets. Science. 297, 947–948 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Dubilier, N., McFall-Ngai, M., Zhao, L.: Microbiology: Create a global microbiome effort. Nature. 526, 631–634 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Aaskov, J., Buzacott, K., Thu, H.M., Lowry, K., Holmes, E.C.: Long-term transmission of defective RNA viruses in humans and Aedes mosquitoes. Science. 311, 236–238 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernando, X.N.: Radio Over Fiber for Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Gibbons, P., Heintze, H.-J. eds: The Humanitarian Challenge: 20 Years European Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA). Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Kou, G., Ergu, D., Peng, Y., Shi, Y.: IBMM for Questionnaire Design Improvement. In: Ergu, D., Peng, Y., and Shi, Y. (eds.) Data Processing for the AHP/ANP. pp. 77–91. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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 of Parallel Programming.

Blog post

Fang, J.: DNA Nanobots Set To Seek and Destroy Cancer Cells In Human Trial

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: UMTA Project Oversight and Mass Transit Issues. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1990)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yang, Y.: Statistical Analysis of cDNA Microarrays: A Systematic Approach to Identify MTF-1 Mediated Gene Expression Profile in Response to Cadmium, (2003)

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

Hartocollis, A., David Goodman, J.: The Rush to Save Rivers’s Life at a Surgery Clinic, (2014)

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	International Journal of Parallel Programming
Abbreviation	Int. J. Parallel Program.
ISSN (print)	0885-7458
ISSN (online)	1573-7640
Scope	Information Systems Software Theoretical Computer Science