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

Butt, H.-J. (2011). Materials science. Controlling the flow of suspensions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 331(6019), 868–869.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeates, T. O., & Clubb, R. T. (2007). Biochemistry. How some pili pull. Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5856), 1558–1559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saito, C., Shinzawa, K., & Tsujimoto, Y. (2014). Synchronized necrotic death of attached hepatocytes mediated via gap junctions. Scientific reports, 4, 5169.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Hanfland, M., Syassen, K., Christensen, N. E., & Novikov, D. L. (2000). New high-pressure phases of lithium. Nature, 408(6809), 174–178.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davison, M. (2011). Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

MacDonald, M. B. (Ed.). (2016). Remix and Life Hack in Hip Hop: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Music. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Morgan, C. (2012). Elementary Probability Theory in the Eindhoven Style. In J. Gibbons & P. Nogueira (Eds.), Mathematics of Program Construction: 11th International Conference, MPC 2012, Madrid, Spain, June 25-27, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 48–73). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Taub, B. (2016, August 1). Quitting Smoking Reverses Dopamine Deficits In The Brain. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/quitting-smoking-reverses-dopamine-deficits-in-the-brain/

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. (2009). V-22 Osprey Aircraft: Assessments Needed to Address Operational and Cost Concerns to Define Future Investments (No. GAO-09-692T). 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

Canetta, S. E. (2010). Type III Neuregulin1 Signaling in Peripheral Sensory Neurons Affects Thermal Pain Sensation and Hyperalgesia (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

Crow, K. (2000, August 20). Where “You Have a Hole in One” Doesn’t Mean You Have a Cavity. New York Times, p. 145.

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