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. Stringer, Human evolution: Small remains still pose big problems, Nature 514 (2014) 427–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

J. Kasparian and J.-P. Wolf, Applied physics. Laser beams take a curve, Science 324 (2009) 194–195.

A journal article with 3 authors

J. W. Vaupel, J. R. Carey and K. Christensen, Aging. It’s never too late, Science 301 (2003) 1679–1681.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

J.-H. Choi, Z. Li, P. Cui, X. Fan, H. Zhang, C. Zeng and Z. Zhang, Drastic reduction in the growth temperature of graphene on copper via enhanced London dispersion force, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1925.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

C. H. Elliott and L. L. Smith, Overcoming Anxiety for Dummies® (Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010).

An edited book

S. J. Stolfo, S. M. Bellovin, A. D. Keromytis, S. Hershkop, S. W. Smith and S. Sinclair (eds.), Insider Attack and Cyber Security: Beyond the Hacker (Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008).

A chapter in an edited book

A. Torres and C. Cillóniz, Methods for preventing pneumonia, in Clinical Management of Bacterial Pneumonia, ed. C. Cillóniz (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015), pp. 57–73.

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

E. Andrew, What Would Happen If The Planet Stopped Spinning?, IFLScience, 2014. . Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-would-happen-if-planet-stopped-spinning/. [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, Federal Research: Interim Assessment of the Small Business Innovation Research and Technology Transfer Programs (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

R. C. Sink, Exploring a high school community relations and parent involvement program (Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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

K. Crow, Fish Are Running, Not the Meter, New York Times (2003) 147.

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