How to format your references using the Cryptography and Communications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cryptography and Communications. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Gould, J.: The cannabis crop. Nature. 525, S2-3 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Didenko, Y.T., Suslick, K.S.: The energy efficiency of formation of photons, radicals and ions during single-bubble cavitation. Nature. 418, 394–397 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Dorman, S.N., Viner, C., Rogan, P.K.: Splicing mutation analysis reveals previously unrecognized pathways in lymph node-invasive breast cancer. Sci. Rep. 4, 7063 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hsu, S.Y., Nakabayashi, K., Nishi, S., Kumagai, J., Kudo, M., Sherwood, O.D., Hsueh, A.J.W.: Activation of orphan receptors by the hormone relaxin. Science. 295, 671–674 (2002)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cumming, D.: Private Equity. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Baharvand, H., Aghdami, N. eds: Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Lopez-Morales, V., Ouzrout, Y.: Implementation of a Multi-agent Supervisory System for an Agricultural Products Sourcing Network. In: Osei-Bryson, K.-M., Mansingh, G., and Rao, L. (eds.) Knowledge Management for Development: Domains, Strategies and Technologies for Developing Countries. pp. 57–69. Springer US, Boston, MA (2014)

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 Cryptography and Communications.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Nature Can’t Pay Its Own Way – So Let’s Take The Market Out Of Conservation, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/nature-can-t-pay-its-own-way-so-let-s-take-market-out-conservation/

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: Digital Broadcast Television Transition: Estimated Cost of Supporting Set-Top Boxes to Help Advance the DTV Transition. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2005)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Knudsen, E.: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder empowerment program: A grant project, (2014)

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

Qiu, L.: An Adoring Crowd, And a Dozen Things That Aren’t True, (2017)

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	Cryptography and Communications
Abbreviation	Cryptogr. Commun.
ISSN (print)	1936-2447
ISSN (online)	1936-2455
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Computer Networks and Communications Applied Mathematics