How to format your references using the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. 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

Holland, G. J. (2009). Oceans. Predicting El Nino’s Impacts. Science (New York, N.Y.), 325(5936), 47.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schacter, D. L., & Addis, D. R. (2007). Constructive memory: the ghosts of past and future. Nature, 445(7123), 27.

A journal article with 3 authors

Obayashi, M., Yoshimitsu, J., & Fukao, Y. (2009). Tearing of stagnant slab. Science (New York, N.Y.), 324(5931), 1173–1175.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Wakim, L. M., Waithman, J., van Rooijen, N., Heath, W. R., & Carbone, F. R. (2008). Dendritic cell-induced memory T cell activation in nonlymphoid tissues. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5860), 198–202.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer, A., & Legeard, B. (2016). Model-Based Testing Essentials. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hansson, A. (2011). On-Chip Interconnect with aelite: Composable and Predictable Systems. (K. Goossens, Ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ong, S.-B. (2014). Imaging of Mitochondrial Disorders: A Review. In Y. C. Hum, M. I. Mohamad Salim, S.-B. Ong, N. P. Utama, Y. M. Myint, N. Mohd Noor, & E. Supriyanto (Eds.), Advances in Medical Diagnostic Technology (pp. 99–136). Singapore: Springer.

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 Embedded Systems.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014, October 8). Venezuela’s First Carnivorous Dinosaur. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/venezuela-s-first-carnivorous-dinosaur/

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. (1981). More Can Be Done To Improve the Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Donation Program (No. CED-81-83). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kim, H. (2008). Prediction and Elimination of Galling in Forming Galvanized Advanced High Strength Steels (AHSS) (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

McKINLEY, J. C., Jr., & Southall, A. (2017, September 29). Queens Woman Charged in Death Related to Botched Silicone Injections. New York Times, p. A20.

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	EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
ISSN (online)	1687-3963
Scope	General Computer Science Control and Systems Engineering