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

Press, F. Earth Science and Society. Nature 2008, 451, 301–303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, Z.-F.; Zhou, J.-H. Can We Identify Source Lithology of Basalt? Sci. Rep. 2013, 3, 1856.

A journal article with 3 authors

Torre, R.; Bartolini, P.; Righini, R. Structural Relaxation in Supercooled Water by Time-Resolved Spectroscopy. Nature 2004, 428, 296–299.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, M.; Kumar, D.; Yi, C.-W.; Goodman, D.W. The Promotional Effect of Gold in Catalysis by Palladium-Gold. Science 2005, 310, 291–293.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdul-Rahman, Y. The Art of RF (Riba-Free) Islamic Banking and Finance; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781118792551.

An edited book

Experimental Robotics: The 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics; Khatib, O., Kumar, V., Rus, D., Eds.; Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 39; ISBN 9783540774563.

A chapter in an edited book

Carr, L.P.; Nanni, A.J. Delivering Results Context. In Delivering Results: Managing What Matters; Nanni, A.J., Jr., Ed.; Springer US: New York, NY, 2009; pp. 41–57 ISBN 9781441906205.

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

Carpineti, A. Happy Galactic Tick Day! Milestone Celebrates Our Journey Around The Galaxy Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/happy-galactic-tick-day-milestone-celebrates-our-journey-around-the-galaxy/ (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 Student Enrollment and Attendance Reports in the Boston Public School System Are Substantially Accurate; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1976;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peng, E. Teaching and Coaching Brazilian Jiujitsu: An Instructional Manual. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Kelly, M. The President’s Past. New York Times 1994, 620.

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
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