How to format your references using the Information Security Technical Report citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Security Technical Report. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
van Hecke M. Materials science. Shape matters. Science. 2007 Jul 6;317(5834):49–50.
A journal article with 2 authors
Cox RM, Calsbeek R. Cryptic sex-ratio bias provides indirect genetic benefits despite sexual conflict. Science. 2010 Apr 2;328(5974):92–4.
A journal article with 3 authors
Nudleman E, Wall D, Kaiser D. Cell-to-cell transfer of bacterial outer membrane lipoproteins. Science. 2005 Jul 1;309(5731):125–7.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
Zhang HT, Chen Z, Vicsek T, Feng G, Sun L, Su R, et al. Route-dependent switch between hierarchical and egalitarian strategies in pigeon flocks. Sci Rep. 2014 Jul 24;4:5805.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Corns TN. A History of Seventeenth-Century English Literature. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; 2008.
An edited book
Liu B, Chai C, editors. Information Computing and Applications: Second International Conference, ICICA 2011, Qinhuangdao, China, October 28-31, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7030).
A chapter in an edited book
Krawczyk CM, Tanner DC, Henk A, Trappe H, Ziesch J, Beilecke T, et al. Seismic and Sub-seismic Deformation Prediction in the Context of Geological Carbon Trapping and Storage. In: Liebscher A, Münch U, editors. Geological Storage of CO2 – Long Term Security Aspects: GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Science Report No 22. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 97–113. (Advanced Technologies in Earth Sciences).

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 Security Technical Report.

Blog post
Carpineti A. Martian Volcanism May Have Shaped A Region As Big As North America [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/martian-volcanism-may-have-shaped-a-region-as-big-as-north-america/

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. Telecommunications: The Proposed Performance Rights Act Would Result in Additional Costs for Broadcast Radio Stations and Additional Revenue for Record Companies, Musicians, and Performers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2010 Aug. Report No.: GAO-10-826.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Molina-Gutierrez E. Keys to my home: A grant proposal project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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
Cooper M. Pearl Theater to Close. New York Times. 2017 Jun 7;C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (van Hecke 2007).
This sentence cites two references (van Hecke 2007; Cox and Calsbeek 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Cox and Calsbeek 2010)
  • Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleInformation Security Technical Report
AbbreviationInf. Secur. Tech. Rep.
ISSN (print)1363-4127
ScopeComputer Networks and Communications
Software
Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality

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