How to format your references using the Journal of Simulation citation style

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

Goldston, D. (2007) Misspent energy. Nature, 447 (7141): 130.

A journal article with 2 authors

Thompson, R.N. & Gibson, S.A. (2000) Transient high temperatures in mantle plume heads inferred from magnesian olivines in Phanerozoic picrites. Nature, 407 (6803): 502–506.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grant, A.N., Brönnimann, S. & Haimberger, L. (2008) Recent Arctic warming vertical structure contested. Nature, 455 (7210): E2-3; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bibby, T.S., Mary, I., Nield, J., Partensky, F. & Barber, J. (2003) Low-light-adapted Prochlorococcus species possess specific antennae for each photosystem. Nature, 424 (6952): 1051–1054.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frank, W.L. & Whittle, D.K. (2010) Revalidating Process Hazard Analyses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dym, H., Kaashoek, M.A., Lancaster, P., Langer, H. & Lerer, L. eds. (2012) A Panorama of Modern Operator Theory and Related Topics: The Israel Gohberg Memorial Volume. Springer: Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Musselin, C. (2010) Universities and Pricing on Higher Education Markets. In: D. Mattheou ed. Changing Educational Landscapes: Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, pp.75–90.

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 Journal of Simulation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) Let The People Decide New Place Names On Mercury And Pluto [Internet]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/let-people-decide-new-place-names-mercury-and-pluto/, accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office (1998) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Actions Must Be Taken Now to Address Slow Pace of Federal Progress. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Saperstein, A.M. (2009) Susceptibility to smoking and nicotine dependence in schizophrenia. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park: College Park, MD.

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

Oestreich, J.R. (2016) In the Classical Music World, Sept. 11 Anniversary Will Pass With Little Notice. New York Times: C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Goldston, 2007; Thompson & Gibson, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Thompson & Gibson, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Bibby et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Simulation
Abbreviation	J. Simul.
ISSN (print)	1747-7778
ISSN (online)	1747-7786
Scope	Software Modelling and Simulation