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Hi all,

I have to submit a paper for a Proceedings volume in a few days and have realised that I don't know how to format some references. The template provided by the organisers includes the format for a journal article only. It goes like this:

[1] T.O. Seeyou, N.X. July, I.N. Kumamoto, “Title of articleâ€

Hi rickl,

well, giving only the formatting information for one type of references is a strange information policy. Whatever.

I have not tested the whole list of available formats, but it seems like the "Nature" format is already somewhat close to what you need. You might then modify this style using the formats manager in Bookends. More info about how to do this is in the user guide.

You could, of course, also check more formats in the reference manager and try how they appear. It is not unlikely that there will be a format that is closer to your needs than the Nature style I mentioned…

Perhaps your the editors don't really care what format you use -- otherwise they would have been more specific, wouldn't they?

That’s what I thought, too.

Perhaps your the editors don't really care what format you use -- otherwise they would have been more specific, wouldn't they?

Yes, I must say that that thought had crossed my mind .

My specific question about place of publication and publisher was a bit of a long shot. I was just wondering whether the square bracketed numerals, the initials-before-the-surname name format, and the commas between anything jumped out at anyone as being a format that they were familiar with.

Nature is closer than formats like APA that I usually use, but only in the respect that it uses numerals (unbracketed). I couldn't find anything exactly like what I want, but it seems that IEEE Software will serve pretty well. It doesn't have the numbers, but they'll be easy to add manually.

Thanks for the help.
Rick