How to format your references using the International Journal of Information Security citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Information Security. 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

Dever, T.E.: Molecular biology. A new start for protein synthesis. Science. 336, 1645–1646 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Müller, B., Sheen, J.: Advances in cytokinin signaling. Science. 318, 68–69 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Reich, D.S., Mechler, F., Victor, J.D.: Independent and redundant information in nearby cortical neurons. Science. 294, 2566–2568 (2001)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thompson, J., Pisarczyk, R., Kurzyński, P., Kaszlikowski, D.: An experimental proposal for revealing contextuality in almost all qutrit states. Sci. Rep. 3, 2706 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brendel, R.: Thin-Film Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2005)

An edited book

Foresti, S., Lopez, J. eds: Information Security Theory and Practice: 10th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 26–27, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Mukhopadhyay, A., Victoria, O.S.M., Zachow, S., Lamecker, H.: Robust and Accurate Appearance Models Based on Joint Dictionary Learning Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative. In: Wu, G., Coupé, P., Zhan, Y., Munsell, B.C., and Rueckert, D. (eds.) Patch-Based Techniques in Medical Imaging: Second International Workshop, Patch-MI 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 17, 2016, Proceedings. pp. 25–33. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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 Information Security.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Scientists Have Simulated Time Travel With Photons, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-have-simulated-time-travel-photons/

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: Customs Service Modernization: Management Improvements Needed on High-Risk Automated Commercial Environment Project. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2002)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sahib, S.S.: Numerical solutions of Maxwell’s equations in 1D, 2D, and 3D via the finite element method, (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

(nyt), S.K.: World Briefing | Europe: Russia: More Delays For Kursk, (2001)

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 Information Security
Abbreviation	Int. J. Inf. Secur.
ISSN (print)	1615-5262
ISSN (online)	1615-5270
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Software Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality