How to format your references using the Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Kling J (2015) Cytometry: Measure for measure. Nature 518:439–443

A journal article with 2 authors

Luksza M, Lässig M (2014) A predictive fitness model for influenza. Nature 507:57–61

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim J-E, Chen J, Lou Z (2008) DBC1 is a negative regulator of SIRT1. Nature 451:583–586

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boyman O, Kovar M, Rubinstein MP, et al (2006) Selective stimulation of T cell subsets with antibody-cytokine immune complexes. Science 311:1924–1927

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zelterman D (2005) Discrete Distributions: Applications in the Health Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Duval B, van den Herik J, Loiseau S, Filipe J (2015) Agents and Artificial Intelligence: 7th International Conference, ICAART 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, January 10-12, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Liesche J, Schulz A (2013) Symplasmic Transport in Phloem Loading and Unloading. In: Sokołowska K, Sowiński P (eds) Symplasmic Transport in Vascular Plants. Springer, New York, NY, pp 133–163

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 Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering.

Blog post

Davis J (2016) SpaceX To Deliver Radiation-Eating Fungi From Chernobyl To The ISS. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1971) Activities at the Regional Finance and Data Processing Center in Paris, France. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huang Y (2017) Sliding Mode Observer Design for Permanent Magnetic Synchronous Generator Based Wind Energy Conversion Systems. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Brantley B (2017) High Society Soaked in Bathtub Gin. New York Times C5

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	Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering
Abbreviation	Innov. Syst. Softw. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1614-5046
ISSN (online)	1614-5054
Scope	Software