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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Jackson, A. Intense Equatorial Flux Spots on the Surface of the Earth’s Core. Nature 2003, 424, 760–763.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, W.; Yuan, D. Mesoporous Carbon Originated from Non-Permanent Porous MOFs for Gas Storage and CO2/CH4 Separation. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kleckner, N.; Zickler, D.; Witz, G. Molecular Biology. Chromosome Capture Brings It All Together. Science 2013, 342, 940–941.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Le Masson, G.; Renaud-Le Masson, S.; Debay, D.; Bal, T. Feedback Inhibition Controls Spike Transfer in Hybrid Thalamic Circuits. Nature 2002, 417, 854–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Speight, J.G. Handbook of Petroleum Product Analysis; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781118986370.

An edited book

Chacón Rebollo, T. Mathematical and Numerical Foundations of Turbulence Models and Applications; Lewandowski, R., Ed.; Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; ISBN 9781493904549.

A chapter in an edited book

Bannore, V. Regularization for Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction. In Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 10th International Conference, KES 2006, Bournemouth, UK, October 9-11, 2006. Proceedings, Part II; Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; pp. 36–46 ISBN 9783540465379.

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. Supermassive Black Holes Become Shrouded In Dust During Galaxy Mergers Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/supermassive-black-holes-become-shrouded-in-dust-during-galaxy-mergers/ (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 Security of Computer Systems; 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

Prochorchik, V.L. Increasing Infant Mental Health Awareness. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Feeney, K. If It’s on a Bun, It’s a Burger. New York Times 2009, NJ13.

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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