How to format your references using the Cryptography citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cryptography. 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

Firestein, S. How the Olfactory System Makes Sense of Scents. Nature 2001, 413, 211–218.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bardgett, R.D.; van der Putten, W.H. Belowground Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning. Nature 2014, 515, 505–511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Samokhvalov, I.M.; Samokhvalova, N.I.; Nishikawa, S.-I. Cell Tracing Shows the Contribution of the Yolk Sac to Adult Haematopoiesis. Nature 2007, 446, 1056–1061.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gstaiger, M.; Luke, B.; Hess, D.; Oakeley, E.J.; Wirbelauer, C.; Blondel, M.; Vigneron, M.; Peter, M.; Krek, W. Control of Nutrient-Sensitive Transcription Programs by the Unconventional Prefoldin URI. Science 2003, 302, 1208–1212.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khanlari, R.; Fard, M.S. FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Form of Contract Illustrated; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015; ISBN 9781118896273.

An edited book

Johannessen, O.M. Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications; Alexandrov, V.Y., Frolov, I.Y., Sandven, S., Pettersson, L.H., Bobylev, L.P., Kloster, K., Smirnov, V.G., Mironov, Y.U., Babich, N.G., Eds.; Springer Praxis Books; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; ISBN 9783540244486.

A chapter in an edited book

Broadhurst, R.; Chang, L.Y.C. Cybercrime in Asia: Trends and Challenges. In Handbook of Asian Criminology; Liu, J., Hebenton, B., Jou, S., Eds.; Springer: New York, NY, 2013; pp. 49–63 ISBN 9781461452171.

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.

Blog post

Hamilton, K. Three Category 4 Hurricanes Churn In The Pacific Ocean Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/three-category-4-hurricanes-churn-pacific-ocean/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 ADP Systems: SSA’s Modernization Efforts Need Redirection; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1987;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Schick, V.R. Examining the Vulva: The Relationship between Female Genital Aesthetic Perceptions and Gynecological Care. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2010.

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

Gordon, M.R.; Schmitt, E. U.S. Sends Civilians to Stabilize Recaptured Syrian Areas. New York Times 2017, A6.

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
ISSN (online)	2410-387X
Scope