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

D. Gershon, When the chips are down, Nature 424 (2003) 585.

A journal article with 2 authors

M. Snyder and M. Gerstein, Genomics. Defining genes in the genomics era, Science 300 (2003) 258–260.

A journal article with 3 authors

N. L. Bernasconi, E. Traggiai and A. Lanzavecchia, Maintenance of serological memory by polyclonal activation of human memory B cells, Science 298 (2002) 2199–2202.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

H.-X. Xu, G.-M. Wang, Z. Tao and T. J. Cui, High-directivity emissions with flexible beam numbers and beam directions using gradient-refractive-index fractal metamaterial, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

H. Simmendinger, HOAI 2013: Praxisleitfaden für Ingenieure und Architekten (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2013).

An edited book

R. Andrievski, Nanomaterials in Extreme Environments: Fundamentals and Applications (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016).

A chapter in an edited book

S. Trevanich, S. Sribuathong and D. Bundidamorn, The Potential Health Benefits of Traditional Thai-Fermented Foods and Beverages, in Functional Properties of Traditional Foods, eds. K. Kristbergsson and S. Ötles (Springer US, Boston, MA, 2016), pp. 39–73.

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, Strongest Lab Grown Muscle Yet, IFLScience, 2014. . Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/strongest-lab-grown-muscle-yet/. [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 Software Licenses: Most Agencies Have Reported Planned Actions to Address Our Prior Recommendations on Software License Management (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

S. Barnard, Police officers’ attitudes about rape victims (Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

P. Baker and M. D. Shear, To President, Human Rights Concerns Are Often a Barrier to Trade, New York Times (2017) A9.

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