How to format your references using the Mathematics and Computers in Simulation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM). 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]

X. Yang, An embryonic nation, Nature 428(6979) (2004) 210–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Jaeger,, H. Haas, Harnessing nonlinearity: predicting chaotic systems and saving energy in wireless communication, Science 304(5667) (2004) 78–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K. Okita,, T. Ichisaka,, S. Yamanaka, Generation of germline-competent induced pluripotent stem cells, Nature 448(7151) (2007) 313–7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.J. Wright,, S. O’Brien,, A. Hazi,, S. Kent, Increased systolic blood pressure reactivity to acute stress is related with better self-reported health, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6882.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Lindahl, Trump University Commercial Real Estate 101, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

M.V.M. Oliveira,, J. Woodcock, Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications: 12th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods, SBMF 2009 Gramado, Brazil, August 19-21, 2009 Revised Selected Papers, Vol. 5902, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Djordjevic,, W. Ryan,, B. Vasic, Graph-Based Codes, in: W. Ryan, B. Vasic (Eds.), Coding for Optical Channels, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2010, pp. 179–206.

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 Mathematics and Computers in Simulation.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Child “Born Twice” After Earlier Surgery To Remove Fetal Tumor. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/child-born-twice-after-earlier-surgery-to-remove-fetal-tumor/. Accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Mass Transit: Federal Action Could Help Transit Agencies Address Security Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.D. Wall, The Effects of Acute L-Dopa on Brux-like and Masticatory Motor Patterns: EMG Phase Analysis in Rats. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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]

J. Williams, Journalists In Australia Stage Strike Over Job Cuts, New York Times (2017) A6.

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	Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
Abbreviation	Math. Comput. Simul.
ISSN (print)	0378-4754
Scope	General Computer Science Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Numerical Analysis Theoretical Computer Science