How to format your references using the Information Fusion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Fusion. 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

[1]

P. Svoboda, Journal club. A molecular biologist explores how new genomic tools can be applied to wild animals, Nature 465 (2010) 529.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.B.A. Jalil, S.G. Tan, Robustness of topological Hall effect of nontrivial spin textures, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5123.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Berger, F. Graef, H. Pfeffer, Glyphosate applications on arable fields considerably coincide with migrating amphibians, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2622.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Blaauwgeers, V.B. Eltsov, M. Krusius, J.J. Ruohio, R. Schanen, G.E. Volovik, Double-quantum vortex in superfluid 3He-A, Nature 404 (2000) 471–473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.L. Meinert, Clinical Trials Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kandouz, ed., Intercellular Communication in Cancer, 1st ed. 2015, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.A.R. Carvalho, D.M. Potter, Peacebuilding and the ‘Human Securitization’ of Japan’s Foreign Aid, in: S. Brown, J. Grävingholt (Eds.), The Securitization of Foreign Aid, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 85–112.

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 Information Fusion.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, The Perils Of A Life In Isolation, IFLScience (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Public Transportation: Federal Role in Value Capture Strategies for Transit Is Limited, but Additional Guidance Could Help Clarify Policies, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.E. Bornheimer, The influence of leadership development programs on the community college leadership shortage: A case study, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Antitrust Policy Ambiguity To Be on Justices’ Docket, New York Times (2006) 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	Information Fusion
Abbreviation	Inf. Fusion
ISSN (print)	1566-2535
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Signal Processing Software