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

Hoag, H.: All systems go. Nature. 427, 568–569 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Gutnisky, D.A., Dragoi, V.: Adaptive coding of visual information in neural populations. Nature. 452, 220–224 (2008)

A journal article with 3 authors

Bliokh, K.Y., Smirnova, D., Nori, F.: OPTICS. Quantum spin Hall effect of light. Science. 348, 1448–1451 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, L., Tan, Z., Wang, D., Xue, L., Guan, M.-X., Huang, T., Li, R.: Species identification through mitochondrial rRNA genetic analysis. Sci. Rep. 4, 4089 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karamalidis, A.K., Dzombak, D.A.: Surface Complexation Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Andrievski, R.: Nanomaterials in Extreme Environments: Fundamentals and Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Achimugu, P., Selamat, A.: A Hybridized Approach for Prioritizing Software Requirements Based on K-Means and Evolutionary Algorithms. In: Azar, A.T. and Vaidyanathan, S. (eds.) Computational Intelligence Applications in Modeling and Control. pp. 73–93. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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

Carpineti, A.: Humans Could Be In Orbit Around Mars As Soon As 2028

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: Telecommunications: Status of Research on the Safety of Cellular Telephones. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1994)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Harvey, S.L.: From “The Man With the Hoe” to “Tobacco Road”: Class, Poverty and Religion and the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, (2012)

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

Kishkovsky, S.: In 15 Hours, Submarine Kursk Is Raised From Sea Floor, (2001)

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