How to format your references using the CSI Transactions on ICT citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CSI Transactions on ICT (CSIT). 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

Rey FA (2013) Dengue virus: two hosts, two structures. Nature 497:443–444

A journal article with 2 authors

Cadwell K, Coscoy L (2005) Ubiquitination on nonlysine residues by a viral E3 ubiquitin ligase. Science 309:127–130

A journal article with 3 authors

Stager JC, Day JJ, Santini S (2004) Comment on “Origin of the superflock of cichlid fishes from Lake Victoria, East Africa.” Science 304:963; author reply 963

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Xing X, Yu Y, Li S, Huang X (2013) How do spin waves pass through a bend? Sci Rep 3:2958

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chakrabarty P (2012) A Guide to Academia. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Chakrabarti A (2015) ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries Volume 1: Theory, Research Methodology, Aesthetics, Human Factors and Education. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Liu X-J, Wang J (2014) Singularity of Parallel Mechanisms. In: Wang J (ed) Parallel Kinematics: Type, Kinematics, and Optimal Design. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 129–148

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 CSI Transactions on ICT.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) NO, Mars Will NOT Appear As Large As The Full Moon In The Night Sky. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/no-mars-will-not-appear-large-full-moon-night-sky/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Telecommunications: Overview of the Cramming Problem. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yang L (2012) A comparison of unsupervised learning techniques for detection of medical abuse in automobile claims. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Vecsey G (2010) For Mets, Gloom and Doom Instead of Sunshine and Smiles. New York Times SP7

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	CSI Transactions on ICT
ISSN (print)	2277-9078
ISSN (online)	2277-9086
Scope