How to format your references using the IET Information Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IET 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	Download the output style file
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

Postle, K.: ‘Close before opening’Science, 2002, 295, (5560), pp. 1658–1659.

A journal article with 2 authors

Han, J.S., Boeke, J.D.: ‘A highly active synthetic mammalian retrotransposon’Nature, 2004, 429, (6989), pp. 314–318.

A journal article with 3 authors

Diemand, J., Moore, B., Stadel, J.: ‘Earth-mass dark-matter haloes as the first structures in the early Universe’Nature, 2005, 433, (7024), pp. 389–391.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hou, L., Pan, X., Guo, Q., Liu, J.-G.: ‘Memory effect of the online user preference’Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, p. 6560.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dooner, D.B.: ‘Kinematic Geometry of Gearing’ (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012)

An edited book

Breslin, J.G.: ‘The Social Semantic Web’ (Springer, 2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Panigati, E., Schreiber, F.A., Zaniolo, C.: ‘Data Streams and Data Stream Management Systems and Languages’, in Colace, F., De Santo, M., Moscato, V., Picariello, A., Schreiber, F.A., Tanca, L. (Eds.): ‘Data Management in Pervasive Systems’ (Springer International Publishing, 2015), pp. 93–111

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 IET Information Security.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: ‘Six Lessons From The Initial Failed International Response To Ebola’, accessed October 2018

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: ‘Enrollment and Attendance Aspects of Federal Student Financial Aid Programs’ (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ferreira, T.J.: ‘Fragmented: Moving Away from Control’. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010

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

Sisario, B.: ‘Prince Museum Approved’New York Times, 2016, p. C4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	IET Information Security
Abbreviation	IET Inf. Secur.
ISSN (print)	1751-8709
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Software