How to format your references using the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
1. R. Bernstein, Science 347, 1282 (2015).
A journal article with 2 authors
1. D. E. Berman and Y. Dudai, Science 291, 2417 (2001).
A journal article with 3 authors
1. D. Georgellis, O. Kwon, and E. C. Lin, Science 292, 2314 (2001).
A journal article with 4 or more authors
1. J. A. Pearce, P. T. Leat, P. F. Barker, and I. L. Millar, Nature 410, 457 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. Tms, TMS 2014 Supplemental Proceedings (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014).
An edited book
1. P. Díaz, V. Pipek, C. Ardito, C. Jensen, I. Aedo, and A. Boden, editors , End-User Development: 5th International Symposium, IS-EUD 2015, Madrid, Spain, May 26-29, 2015. Proceedings (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015).
A chapter in an edited book
1. R. Rambousky and H. Garbe, in Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics 10, edited by F. Sabath and E. L. Mokole (Springer, New York, NY, 2014), pp. 49–58.

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 EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.

Blog post
1. J. Davis, IFLScience (2017).

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
1. Government Accountability Office, Public Transportation: Better Data Needed to Assess Length of New Starts Process, and Options Exist to Expedite Project Development (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. K. J. Ballard, Frequent Factors for Psychiatric Hospital Readmission, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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
1. E. St. John Kelly, New York Times 139 (1994).

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 titleEURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
AbbreviationEURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process.
ISSN (online)1687-6180
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