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

C. H. Sibley, Infectious diseases. Understanding artemisinin resistance, Science 347 (2015) 373–374.

A journal article with 2 authors

J. R. Terman and A. L. Kolodkin, Nervy links protein kinase a to plexin-mediated semaphorin repulsion, Science 303 (2004) 1204–1207.

A journal article with 3 authors

F. Chen, P. W. Tillberg and E. S. Boyden, Optical imaging. Expansion microscopy, Science 347 (2015) 543–548.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

S. J. Kim, Y. S. Kim, J. P. Yuan, R. S. Petralia, P. F. Worley and D. J. Linden, Activation of the TRPC1 cation channel by metabotropic glutamate receptor mGluR1, Nature 426 (2003) 285–291.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

I. Moir and A. G. Seabridge, Military Avionics Systems (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006).

An edited book

G. Tempesti, A. M. Tyrrell and J. F. Miller (eds.), Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware: 9th International Conference, ICES 2010, York, UK, September 6-8, 2010. Proceedings (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010).

A chapter in an edited book

M. D. de Smet and M. E. J. van Velthoven, Combined Optical Coherence Tomography and Confocal Ophthalmoscopy (OCT/SLO), in Optical Coherence Tomography in Age-Related Macular Degeneration: OCT in AMD, eds. F. Coscas, S. Vismara, A. Zourdani and C. I. L. Calzi (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009), pp. 49–65.

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

D. Andrew, Does Tapping A Can Of Fizzy Drink Really Stop It Foaming Over?, IFLScience, 2016. . Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/does-tapping-a-can-of-fizzy-drink-really-stop-it-foaming-over/. [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, NASA: Compliance with Cost Limits (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

A. Y. Alzaaq, Arabic adaptation of loanwords: An empirical examination of pharyngealization and vowel epenthesis (Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017).

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

G. Vecsey, For Musial, A Birthday And A Medal, New York Times (2010) SP1.

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