How to format your references using the EURASIP Journal on Information Security citation style

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

Howard, A. (2014). Building the bionic woman. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6206), 274.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, W. R., & Lin, K. (2003). Protein knots: A tangled problem. Nature, 421(6918), 25.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yeung, L. Y., Ash, J. L., & Young, E. D. (2015). Isotope geochemistry. Biological signatures in clumped isotopes of O₂. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6233), 431–434.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Gerrienne, P., Meyer-Berthaud, B., Fairon-Demaret, M., Streel, M., & Steemans, P. (2004). Runcaria, a middle devonian seed plant precursor. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5697), 856–858.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarker, D. K. (2013). Pharmaceutical Emulsions. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kuhad, R. C., & Singh, A. (Eds.). (2013). Biotechnology for Environmental Management and Resource Recovery. New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

de Freitas, C. R., & Perry, M. (2012). Principles and Indicators. In M. Perry (Ed.), New Environmentalism: Managing New Zealand’s Environmental Diversity (pp. 105–132). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Information Security.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 10). What Would Your Christmas Dinner Look Like Without Bees? IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/no-bees-no-christmas-dinner/

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. (1993). Information Resources: USDA Lacks Data on Major Computer Systems (No. AIMD-94-31). 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

Trantham, L. C. (2012). PSA surveillance following radical prostatectomy: What we know and why it matters (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Koblin, J. (2016, August 10). Some Live Colbert Shows Planned After Debates. New York Times, p. C3.

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 Information Security
ISSN (online)	1687-417X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Signal Processing