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

Callaway E (2012) Evolutionary biology: the lost appetites. Nature 486:S16-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Moore BD, Foley WJ (2005) Tree use by koalas in a chemically complex landscape. Nature 435:488–490

A journal article with 3 authors

Constância M, Kelsey G, Reik W (2004) Resourceful imprinting. Nature 432:53–57

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Anderegg WRL, Konings AG, Trugman AT, et al (2018) Hydraulic diversity of forests regulates ecosystem resilience during drought. Nature 561:538–541

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Alrifai T (2015) Islamic Finance and the New Financial System. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Lajtha A, Youdim MBH, Riederer P, et al (2007) Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Degenerative Diseases of the Nervous System. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Rocha FG, Jarnagin WR (2013) Staging Systems. In: Lau WY (ed) Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 43–52

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

Andrew E (2014) Where Does The Smell of Old Books Come From? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/where-does-smell-old-books-come/. 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 (1991) Traffic Congestion: The Need and Opportunity for Federal Involvement. 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

Kim SA (2009) Development of an age-appropriate, facility-specific nutrition screening and assessment tool for the elderly. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Shpigel B (2017) How Johnson Might Balance Ambassadorship and the Jets. New York Times D2

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