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

Endo M (2006) Obituary: Setsuro Ebashi (1922-2006). Nature 442:996

A journal article with 2 authors

Milo R, Last RL (2012) Achieving diversity in the face of constraints: lessons from metabolism. Science 336:1663–1667

A journal article with 3 authors

Dillon ME, Wang G, Huey RB (2010) Global metabolic impacts of recent climate warming. Nature 467:704–706

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kassai Y, Munne P, Hotta Y, et al (2005) Regulation of mammalian tooth cusp patterning by ectodin. Science 309:2067–2070

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henriksen RN (2015) Scale Invariance. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

André MP, Akiyama I, Andre M, et al (2007) Acoustical Imaging. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Vasta M (2006) The largest 200 manufacturing firms (1913–2001). In: Giannetti R, Vasta M (eds) Evolution of Italian Enterprises in the 20th Century. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg, pp 87–110

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 (2015) How Much Sleep Do We Need? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-much-sleep-do-we-need/. 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 (2008) Highway Safety: Foresight Issues Challenge DOT’s Efforts to Assess and Respond to New Technology-Based Trends. 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

Snyder QZ (2010) From anarchy to confederacy: A theory of international politics. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Walsh MW (2017) U.S. Sues UnitedHealth Over Medicare Charges. New York Times B2

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