How to format your references using the International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

R.D. Lorenz, Planetary science. Winds of change on Titan, Science. 329 (2010) 519–520.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y.W. Yin, T.A. Steitz, Structural basis for the transition from initiation to elongation transcription in T7 RNA polymerase, Science. 298 (2002) 1387–1395.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W.J. Nuttall, R.H. Clarke, B.A. Glowacki, Resources: Stop squandering helium, Nature. 485 (2012) 573–575.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.M. Ghez, M. Morris, E.E. Becklin, A. Tanner, T. Kremenek, The accelerations of stars orbiting the Milky Way’s central black hole, Nature. 407 (2000) 349–351.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Harte, Reading the Contemporary Irish Novel 1987-2007, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

H.G. Coskun, H.K. Cigizoglu, M.D. Maktav, eds., Integration of Information for Environmental Security, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Rosenblatt, R. Calantone, Using the Price/Quantity Model to Indicate Power in Marketing Channels, in: V.V. Bellur (Ed.), The 1980’s: A Decade of Marketing Challenges: Proceedings of the 1981 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 14–19.

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 International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, Scotland To Ban Growing Commercial GM Crops, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scotland-ban-growing-commercial-gm-crops/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Automated Patent System: Information on PTO’s Program to Automate Patent Information and Processes, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

F. Mahrenholz, The emergence, growth, and challenges of online learning, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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

[1]

L. Saslow, Insider Named President of Farmingdale College, New York Times. (2007) LI2.

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	International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection
ISSN (print)	1874-5482
Scope