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

Franson, J. D. (2010). Physics. Pairs rule quantum interference. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5990), 396–397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, Z., & Wang, J. (2014). Long-range hybrid wedge plasmonic waveguide. Scientific reports, 4, 6870.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoerling, M. P., Hurrell, J. W., & Xu, T. (2001). Tropical origins for recent North Atlantic climate change. Science (New York, N.Y.), 292(5514), 90–92.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kim, B. N., Hiraga, K., Morita, K., & Sakka, Y. (2001). A high-strain-rate superplastic ceramic. Nature, 413(6853), 288–291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bowen, C. (2015). Children’s Speech Sound Disorders. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ngonga Ngomo, A.-C., & Křemen, P. (Eds.). (2016). Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web: 7th International Conference, KESW 2016, Prague, Czech Republic, September 21-23, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 649). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Roser, F. (2008). Proliferation Behaviour of Meningiomas. In M. Tatagiba (Ed.), Samii’s Essentials in Neurosurgery (pp. 27–34). 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 Information Security.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, December 19). Why A Pill To Prevent HIV Is Causing Great Controversy. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-pill-prevent-hiv-causing-great-controversy/

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. (1986). Social Security: Improved Telephone Accessibility Would Better Serve the Public (No. HRD-86-85). 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

Zimmerman, T. F. (2010). A descriptive review of the development and implementation of a funding model for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System: The first 10 years, 1998–2008 (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Weiser, B. (2015, September 30). Chinese Magnate Is Accused of Lying About Millions in Cash He Brought to U.S. New York Times, p. A21.

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