How to format your references using the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR). 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

K. A. Kelly, Atmospheric science. Wind data: a promise in peril, Science 303 (2004) 962–963.

A journal article with 2 authors

J. H. Solomon and M. J. Hartmann, Biomechanics: robotic whiskers used to sense features, Nature 443 (2006) 525.

A journal article with 3 authors

P. Waelti, A. Dickinson and W. Schultz, Dopamine responses comply with basic assumptions of formal learning theory, Nature 412 (2001) 43–48.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

P. Müller, J.-P. Bouly, K. Hitomi, V. Balland, E. D. Getzoff, T. Ritz and K. Brettel, ATP binding turns plant cryptochrome into an efficient natural photoswitch, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5175.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

M. C. Altman, Kant and Applied Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011).

An edited book

L. S. Abrams, E. Hughes, M. Inderbitzin and R. Meek (eds.), The Voluntary Sector in Prisons: Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change (Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

F. G. Rocha and W. R. Jarnagin, Staging Systems, in Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma, ed. W. Y. Lau (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013), 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 International Journal of Humanoid Robotics.

Blog post

K. Hamilton, 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Black Holes, IFLScience, 2015. . Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/10-facts-you-may-not-know-about-black-holes/. [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, Aviation: Impact of Fuel Price Increases on the Aviation Industry (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

R. Morr, Age Discrimination: Prejudice Suppression in the Selection Process (Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2015).

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

M. Pilon, A Different Way of Taking Off at J.F.K, New York Times (2013) D8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 Humanoid Robotics
Abbreviation	Int. J. HR
ISSN (print)	0219-8436
ISSN (online)	1793-6942
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Mechanical Engineering