How to format your references using the Mathematical and Computer Modelling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematical and Computer Modelling. 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.R. Landis, Organic chemistry. Construction and deconstruction of aldehydes by transfer hydroformylation, Science 347 (2015) 29–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Bao, M.G. Bawendi, A colloidal quantum dot spectrometer, Nature 523 (2015) 67–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Gruber, C.D. Keeling, N.R. Bates, Interannual variability in the North Atlantic Ocean carbon sink, Science 298 (2002) 2374–2378.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T.Q. Gentner, K.M. Fenn, D. Margoliash, H.C. Nusbaum, Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds, Nature 440 (2006) 1204–1207.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Sexton, Trump University Marketing 101, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

T. Jiang, N. Navab, J.P.W. Pluim, M.A. Viergever, eds., Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010: 13th International Conference, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2010, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Nordenstreng, Embroiled in Cold War Politics: IOJ and IFJ (1946–), in: U.J. Björk, F. Beyersdorf, S. Høyer, E. Lauk (Eds.), A History of the International Movement of Journalists: Professionalism Versus Politics, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 125–172.

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 Mathematical and Computer Modelling.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Ancient Lost City Discovered Underground, IFLScience (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Radioactive Sources: Opportunities Exist for Federal Agencies to Strengthen Transportation Security, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.M. Cornejo, Teachers’ perceptions about promoting mental health in the classroom, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

S. Cowley, Tally of Suspect Accounts at Wells Fargo Grows by 1.4 Million, New York Times (2017) B1.

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	Mathematical and Computer Modelling
Abbreviation	Math. Comput. Model.
ISSN (print)	0895-7177
Scope	Computer Science Applications Modelling and Simulation