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]

K. Dholakia, Journal club. An optical physicist sees beyond fluorescent labels, Nature 457 (2009) 1061.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N.J. Strausfeld, F. Hirth, Deep homology of arthropod central complex and vertebrate basal ganglia, Science 340 (2013) 157–161.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.S. Griffin, S.A. West, A. Buckling, Cooperation and competition in pathogenic bacteria, Nature 430 (2004) 1024–1027.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Seki, R.C. Elphic, M. Hirahara, T. Terasawa, T. Mukai, On atmospheric loss of oxygen ions from earth through magnetospheric processes, Science 291 (2001) 1939–1941.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Wells, Global Credit Management, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

T. Bengtsson, ed., Population Ageing - A Threat to the Welfare State?: The Case of Sweden, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E. Bertino, L.D. Martino, F. Paci, A.C. Squicciarini, Digital Identity Management and Trust Negotiation, in: L. Martino, F. Paci, A. Squicciarini (Eds.), Security for Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 79–114.

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]

J. Fang, A Quarter of North America’s Birds Haven’t Recovered From West Nile Virus, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/quarter-north-americas-birds-have-yet-recover-west-nile/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, FCC: Access to Telecommunications Equipment and Services by Persons With Disabilities, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.D. McClurg, A phenomenological study of Baby Boomer retirement— Expectations, results, and implications, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2013.

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]

J. Poniewozik, Fox News Is Fixing For a Fight At Night, New York Times (2017) C1.

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