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:

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

Marshall CR. Evolution. Fossil record reveals tropics as cradle and museum. Science. 2006 Oct 6;314(5796):66–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Teruel MN, Meyer T. Parallel single-cell monitoring of receptor-triggered membrane translocation of a calcium-sensing protein module. Science. 2002 Mar 8;295(5561):1910–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

van Den Brink GR, de Santa Barbara P, Roberts DJ. Development. Epithelial cell differentiation--a Mather of choice. Science. 2001 Dec 7;294(5549):2115–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ruban AV, Wentworth M, Yakushevska AE, Andersson J, Lee PJ, Keegstra W, et al. Plants lacking the main light-harvesting complex retain photosystem II macro-organization. Nature. 2003 Feb 6;421(6923):648–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bitton G. Microbiology of Drinking Water. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Carsrud AL, Brännback M, editors. Understanding the Entrepreneurial Mind: Opening the Black Box. New York, NY: Springer; 2009. (International Studies in Entrepreneurship; vol. 24).

A chapter in an edited book

Driscoll P. Computational Methods for Name Normalization Using Hypocoristic Personal Name Variants. In: Poibeau T, Saggion H, Piskorski J, Yangarber R, editors. Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 73–91. (Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing).

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

Fang J. Ford Has Made All Its Hybrid And Electric Car Patents Available To Competitors [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/fords-hybrid-and-electric-car-patents-are-now-available-other-automakers/

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. Medicaid Managed Care: Serving the Disabled Challenges State Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Jul. Report No.: HEHS-96-136.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DeMoss MD. Mapping the issues: A content analysis of elementary and secondary education news stories from 1968 to 2008 on television networks [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella 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

Crow K. Cafe Borgia, Like Its Beat Heyday And Lucrezia Herself, Is History. New York Times. 2001 Jan 14;145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Marshall 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Teruel and Meyer 2002; Marshall 2006).

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

Two authors: (Teruel and Meyer 2002)
Three or more authors: (Ruban et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Security Technical Report
Abbreviation	Inf. Secur. Tech. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1363-4127
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Software Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality