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

Dinman JD. Molecular biology: Entry signals control development. Nature. 2015 Jan 1;517(7532):24–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kuncel NR, Hezlett SA. Assessment. Standardized tests predict graduate students’ success. Science. 2007 Feb 23;315(5815):1080–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jiang W, Birk FT, Davidović D. Effects of confinement and electron transport on magnetic switching in single Co nanoparticles. Sci Rep. 2013 Feb 4;3:1200.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Gaidos E, Haghighipour N, Agol E, Latham D, Raymond S, Rayner J. New worlds on the horizon: Earth-sized planets close to other stars. Science. 2007 Oct 12;318(5848):210–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia T, Anzur T. Power Performance. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Foxley A, Stallings B, editors. Innovation and Inclusion in Latin America: Strategies to Avoid the Middle Income Trap. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. (Studies of the Americas).

A chapter in an edited book

Ruivo P, Oliveira T, Neto M. ERP Post-adoption: Use and Value – An Empirical Study on Portuguese SMEs. In: Rahman H, Mesquita A, Ramos I, Pernici B, editors. Knowledge and Technologies in Innovative Information Systems: 7th Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems, MCIS 2012, Guimaraes, Portugal, September 8-10, 2012 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 67–81. (van der Aalst W, Mylopoulos J, Rosemann M, Shaw MJ, Szyperski C, editors. Lecture Notes in Business Information 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

Carpineti A. Hubble Detects Faint Galaxy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/even-faint-galaxies-are-no-match-hubble/

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. Review of Accounts, CAB Through June 30, 1971. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1972 Feb. Report No.: 092436.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wheeler TJ. Efficient construction of accurate multiple alignments and large-scale phylogenies [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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

Paulson M. ‘Groundhog Day’ Will Close on Sept. 17. New York Times. 2017 Aug 15;C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dinman 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Kuncel and Hezlett 2007; Dinman 2015).

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

Two authors: (Kuncel and Hezlett 2007)
Three or more authors: (Gaidos et al. 2007)

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