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

Stewart, I., I.: Mathematics. A gathering of groups. Nature. 403, 719–720 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Flowers, R.M., Farley, K.A.: Apatite 4He/3He and (U-Th)/He evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon. Science. 338, 1616–1619 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z.W., Holcombe, A.O.: Tracking an object through feature space. Nature. 408, 196–199 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kawamoto, A., Morimoto, Y.V., Miyata, T., Minamino, T., Hughes, K.T., Kato, T., Namba, K.: Common and distinct structural features of Salmonella injectisome and flagellar basal body. Sci. Rep. 3, 3369 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Staudt, G.: Experimentalphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2001)

An edited book

Wu, J., Chen, H., Wang, X. eds: Advanced Computer Architecture: 10th Annual Conference, ACA 2014, Shenyang, China, August 23-24, 2014. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Lauriks, S., Reinersmann, A., van der Roest, H.G., Meiland, F., Davies, R., Moelaert, F., Mulvenna, M.D., Nugent, C.D., Dröes, R.-M.: Review of ICT-Based Services for Identified Unmet Needs in People with Dementia. In: Mulvenna, M.D. and Nugent, C.D. (eds.) Supporting People with Dementia Using Pervasive Health Technologies. pp. 37–61. Springer, London (2010)

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

Andrew, E.: Test Track To Be Built For Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Train, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-and-fastest-train-earth/

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: Workforce Development: Community Colleges and One-Stop Centers Collaborate to Meet 21st Century Workforce Needs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sinha, R.: An Integrated Development Environment for the Clara Constraint-Programming Language, (2017)

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

Saslow, L.: If the Pay’s “Confidential,” It Just Disappeared, (2007)

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

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