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

Schaffer S (2011) The laird of physics. Nature 471:289–291

A journal article with 2 authors

Shu J-J, Wang Q-W (2014) Beyond Parrondo’s paradox. Sci Rep 4:4244

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeong K-H, Kim J, Lee LP (2006) Biologically inspired artificial compound eyes. Science 312:557–561

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Koch P, Breuer P, Peitz M, et al (2011) Excitation-induced ataxin-3 aggregation in neurons from patients with Machado-Joseph disease. Nature 480:543–546

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lane C (2011) Magnolia. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Ahmad P, Prasad MNV (2012) Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants: Metabolism, Productivity and Sustainability. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Campadelli P, Casiraghi E (2005) Pruning the Nodule Candidate Set in Postero Anterior Chest Radiographs. In: Apolloni B, Marinaro M, Tagliaferri R (eds) Biological and Artificial Intelligence Environments: 15th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN VIETRI 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 37–43

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 (2015) U.S. And China Join Forces To Build A Bullet Train Between LA And Las Vegas. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/us-and-china-join-forces-build-bullet-train-between-la-and-las-vegas/. 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 (1983) Information Regarding the Effect of Applying the Representative Tax System to the General Revenue Sharing, Medicaid, and Vocational Education Programs. 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

Krisher J (2017) Cell-Matrix Interaction: Activation of the MAP Kinase Signaling Pathway in Salivary Gland Cells. 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

Wines M, Bosman J (2017) A ‘Passionate’ Seeker of Voter Fraud in Kansas Gets a National Soapbox. New York Times A12

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

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