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

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

Rochmyaningsih D (2015) Focus on political Islamic groups to boost science. Nature 518:457

A journal article with 2 authors

Peacock E, Garshelis DL (2006) Comment on “On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects” IV. Science 313:45; author reply 45

A journal article with 3 authors

Song C, Havlin S, Makse HA (2005) Self-similarity of complex networks. Nature 433:392–395

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Eubelen M, Bostaille N, Cabochette P, et al (2018) A molecular mechanism for Wnt ligand-specific signaling. Science 361:

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinelli RJ, Milosevic DZ (2015) Project Management ToolBox. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Minai A, Braha D, Bar-Yam Y (2008) Unifying Themes in Complex Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

van de Poel I, Nihlén Fahlquist J (2013) Risk and Responsibility. In: Roeser S, Hillerbrand R, Sandin P, Peterson M (eds) Essentials of Risk Theory. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 107–143

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 Multimedia Information Retrieval.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) New Horizons Spacecraft Captures Pluto And Charon’s Orbital Dance. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-horizons-spacecraft-captures-pluto-and-charons-orbital-dance/. 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 (1992) Aviation Safety: Progress on FAA Safety Indicators Program Slow and Challenges Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nagarajah BA (2017) The influence of professional training and personal factors on technostress: A correlational study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University

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

Meier A, Musick K (2012) Is the Family Dinner Overrated? New York Times SR9

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 Multimedia Information Retrieval
Abbreviation	Int. J. Multimed. Inf. Retr.
ISSN (print)	2192-6611
ISSN (online)	2192-662X
Scope	Information Systems Media Technology Library and Information Sciences

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