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

Coppi, P.: Astronomy. Inside a cosmic train wreck. Science. 316, 1852–1854 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Verstreken, P., Bellen, H.J.: Neuroscience. The meaning of a mini. Science. 293, 443–444 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lambert, J.B., Gurusamy-Thangavelu, S.A., Ma, K.: The silicate-mediated formose reaction: bottom-up synthesis of sugar silicates. Science. 327, 984–986 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Soibel, A., Zeldov, E., Rappaport, M., Myasoedov, Y., Tamegai, T., Ooi, S., Konczykowski, M., Geshkenbein, V.B.: Imaging the vortex-lattice melting process in the presence of disorder. Nature. 406, 282–287 (2000)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCall, M.W.: Classical Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2010)

An edited book

Soriano, E., Marco-Contelles, J. eds: Computational Mechanisms of Au and Pt Catalyzed Reactions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Shen, L., Peng, X., Liu, J., Zhao, W.: Towards Feature-Oriented Variability Reconfiguration in Dynamic Software Product Lines. In: Schmid, K. (ed.) Top Productivity through Software Reuse: 12th International Conference on Software Reuse, ICSR 2011, Pohang, South Korea, June 13-17, 2011. Proceedings. pp. 52–68. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

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

O`Callaghan, J.: Futuristic Railway System Planned For Dubai Will Transport People In Vacuum Tubes At 1,220 Kilometers Per Hour, https://www.iflscience.com/space/futuristic-railway-system-planned-for-dubai-will-transport-people-in-vacuum-tubes-at-1220-kilometers-per-hour/

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: The National Direct Student Loan Program Requires More Attention by the Office of Education and Participating Institutions. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1977)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ulaganathan, M.N.: Building a volunteered geographic information system (VGIS): A mobile application for disaster management, (2016)

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

Novick, S.M.: Flavorful Encores From Jean-Georges, (2016)

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

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