How to format your references using the Journal of Symbolic Computation citation style

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

Wuethrich, B., 2000. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: Feds Team Up With a Company to Protect 17 Threatened Fish Species. Science 289, 385.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, J.-W., Helmann, J.D., 2006. The PerR transcription factor senses H2O2 by metal-catalysed histidine oxidation. Nature 440, 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maiorano, D., Moreau, J., Méchali, M., 2000. XCDT1 is required for the assembly of pre-replicative complexes in Xenopus laevis. Nature 404, 622–625.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shoham, S., Halgren, E., Maynard, E.M., Normann, R.A., 2001. Motor-cortical activity in tetraplegics. Nature 413, 793.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, J.-J., 2014. Hydraulic Fracturing in Earth-Rock Fill DAMS. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Karch, M., 2010. Android for Work: Productivity for Professionals. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Bouchard, F., 2007. Moving beyond the influence of molecular genetics on the debate about reductionism in philosophy of biology, in: Fagot-Largeault, A., Rahman, S., Torres, J.M. (Eds.), The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary Thinking. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 63–80.

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 Symbolic Computation.

Blog post

Felton, J., 2017. Flat-Earther’s “Experiment” Goes Viral, Just Not In The Way He’d Hoped [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1978. Status of the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (No. PSAD-78-37). 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

Cannon, J.R., 2012. Microwave-supported acid hydrolysis for proteomics (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

Poniewozik, J., 2017. Good Characters Are Hard to Find. New York Times C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wuethrich, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lee and Helmann, 2006; Wuethrich, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Helmann, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Shoham et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Symbolic Computation
Abbreviation	J. Symb. Comput.
ISSN (print)	0747-7171
Scope	Algebra and Number Theory Computational Mathematics