How to format your references using the Intelligent Industrial Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Intelligent Industrial Systems. 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

Bindschadler, R.: Climate change. Hitting the ice sheets where it hurts. Science. 311, 1720–1721 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Orszag, J.M., Orszag, P.R.: Economics. Individual accounts: lessons from international experience. Science. 309, 250–251 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Daw, R., Finkelstein, J., Helmer, M.: Chemistry and energy. Nature. 488, 293 (2012)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lafferentz, L., Ample, F., Yu, H., Hecht, S., Joachim, C., Grill, L.: Conductance of a single conjugated polymer as a continuous function of its length. Science. 323, 1193–1197 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wing, C.: How Your House Works. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2012)

An edited book

Brilly, M. ed: Hydrological Processes of the Danube River Basin: Perspectives from the Danubian Countries. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Paschalidis, I.C., Li, K., Guo, D., Lin, Y.: Probabilistic Indoor Tracking of Mobile Wireless Nodes Relative to Landmarks. In: Ammari, H.M. (ed.) The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks: Volume 2: Advanced Topics and Applications. pp. 169–200. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

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 Intelligent Industrial Systems.

Blog post

Hale, T.: Stunning Drone Footage Of A Paddleboarder’s Encounter With Two Whales, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/stunning-drone-footage-paddle-boarders-encounter-two-whales/

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: University Funding: Assessing Federal Funding Mechanisms for University Research. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1986)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Purnell, C.P.: Exploring teachers’ perceptions of professional development in virtual learning teams, (2012)

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

Rubin, J.P.: 59 Missiles Don’t Equal a Foreign Policy, (2017)

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	Intelligent Industrial Systems
Abbreviation	Intell. Ind. Syst.
ISSN (print)	2363-6912
ISSN (online)	2199-854X
Scope