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

Livingstone MS (2000) Is it warm? Is it real? Or just low spatial frequency? Science 290:1299b

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanson B, Voss D (2007) Sunrise. Introduction. Hinode. Science 318:1571

A journal article with 3 authors

Verburg P, Hecky RE, Kling H (2003) Ecological consequences of a century of warming in Lake Tanganyika. Science 301:505–507

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Schulze DJ, Harte B, Valley JW, et al (2003) Extreme crustal oxygen isotope signatures preserved in coesite in diamond. Nature 423:68–70

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ahonen TT (2006) m-Profits. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Pertijs MAP (2006) PRECISION TEMPERATURE SENSORS IN CMOS TECHNOLOGY. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Girsang IP, Dhupia JS (2015) Machine Tools for Machining. In: Nee AYC (ed) Handbook of Manufacturing Engineering and Technology. Springer, London, pp 811–865

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) Gamers More Likely To Be Social, Educated Than Non-Gamers. In: IFLScience. 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 (2014) Office of Personnel Management: Agency Needs to Improve Outcome Measures to Demonstrate the Value of Its Innovation Lab. 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

Lim L (2010) Dual-class vs. single-class firms: Information environment. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Poniewozik J (2017) A Brutal Season of Prison Siege. New York Times C1

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