How to format your references using the Computers in Industry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computers in Industry. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

H. Kitano, Systems biology: a brief overview, Science 295 (2002) 1662–1664.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.A. Zijlstra, R.J. Davis, Retrospective. Sir Bernard Lovell (1913-2012), Science 337 (2012) 1307.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Nesić, Y. Hsu, C.E. Stebbins, Assembly and function of a bacterial genotoxin, Nature 429 (2004) 429–433.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Yeh, Y.-A. Soh, J. Brooke, G. Aeppli, T.F. Rosenbaum, S.M. Hayden, Quantum phase transition in a common metal, Nature 419 (2002) 459–462.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Hong, Causality in a Social World, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

M. Böhlen, J. Gamper, W. Polasek, M.A. Wimmer, eds., E-Government: Towards Electronic Democracy: International Conference, TCGOV 2005, Bolzano, Italy, March 2-4, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.K. On, T.K. Yao, R. Alfred, A.A.A. Ibrahim, W. Cheng, T.T. Guan, A Comparison of BPNN, RBF, and ENN in Number Plate Recognition, in: M.W. Berry, A. Hj. Mohamed, B.W. Yap (Eds.), Soft Computing in Data Science: Second International Conference, SCDS 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September 21-22, 2016, Proceedings, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 37–47.

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 Computers in Industry.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Mysterious Traces Of Radioactive Iodine Detected Over Europe, IFLScience (2017).

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, Missile Development: Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) Certification Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Richardson, Edgard Varèse and the Visual Avant-Garde: A Comparative Study of Intégrales and Works of Art by Marcel Duchamp, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2005.

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.M. Nir, A Live-In Love Triangle Ends in a Beating Death, New York Times (2013) A31.

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	Computers in Industry
Abbreviation	Comput. Ind.
ISSN (print)	0166-3615
Scope	General Computer Science General Engineering