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

Kasten, F.H.: Early mouse models of human diseases. Science. 289, 56a (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hussain, N.K., Sheng, M.: Neuroscience. Making synapses: a balancing act. Science. 307, 1207–1208 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Shanavas, K.V., Parker, D., Singh, D.J.: Theoretical study on the role of dynamics on the unusual magnetic properties in MnBi. Sci. Rep. 4, 7222 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Opher, M., Bibi, F.A., Toth, G., Richardson, J.D., Izmodenov, V.V., Gombosi, T.I.: A strong, highly-tilted interstellar magnetic field near the Solar System. Nature. 462, 1036–1038 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety: Guidelines for Initiating Events and Independent Protection Layers in Layer of Protection Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2015)

An edited book

Kamerman, S.B., Phipps, S., Ben-Arieh, A. eds: From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being: An International Perspective on Knowledge in the Service of Policy Making. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Lee, R., Wolpert, D.H., Bono, J., Backhaus, S., Bent, R., Tracey, B.: Counter-Factual Reinforcement Learning: How to Model Decision-Makers That Anticipate the Future. In: Guy, T.V., Karny, M., and Wolpert, D. (eds.) Decision Making and Imperfection. pp. 101–128. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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

Andrew, D.: From Nostrils To Crocodile Blood – Ten Surprising Places To Look For Antibiotics, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/from-nostrils-to-crocodile-blood-ten-surprising-places-to-look-for-antibiotics/

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 Communications Commission: Use of the 28 GHz and 31 GHz Bands for Local Multipoint Distribution Service. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bearden, A.: Exploring the Congruency between Mission and Practice in a Pre-K-12, Midwestern, Christian School, (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

Williams, J.: One Book, One City, (2017)

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