How to format your references using the Intelligent Service Robotics citation style

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

Nielsen MW (2015) Make academic job advertisements fair to all. Nature 525:427

A journal article with 2 authors

Lyons TW, Reinhard CT (2009) Early Earth: Oxygen for heavy-metal fans. Nature 461:179–181

A journal article with 3 authors

Grima JN, Attard D, Gatt R (2011) Materials science. Unusual thermoelastic properties of methanol monohydrate. Science 331:687–688

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Qian K, Zhou L, Liu J, et al (2013) Laser engineered graphene paper for mass spectrometry imaging. Sci Rep 3:1415

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnson JL (1997) Probability and Statistics for Computer Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gough S (2016) Handbook of Incretin-based Therapies in Type 2 Diabetes. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Chalmers N (2007) Sites of Arterial Access and the Role of Closure Devices in Percutaneous Arterial Intervention. In: Cowling MG (ed) Vascular Interventional Radiology: Angioplasty, Stenting, Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 21–28

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 Service Robotics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) This “Hedgehog” Robot Could Hop And Tumble Over Asteroids And Comets. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hedgehog-robot-could-hop-and-tumble-over-asteroids-and-comets/. 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 (1993) Space Shuttle Main Engine: NASA Has Not Evaluated the Alternate Fuel Turbopump Costs and Benefits. 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

Pan Y (2010) Long-Term Effects of Higher-Quality Early Childhood Education for At-Risk Children on Their Later Development and Resilience. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Koblin J (2017) Stewart Will Perform Stand-Up On HBO. New York Times B5

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 Service Robotics
Abbreviation	Intell. Serv. Robot.
ISSN (print)	1861-2776
ISSN (online)	1861-2784
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Engineering (miscellaneous) Computational Mechanics Mechanical Engineering