How to format your references using the International Journal of Social Robotics citation style

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

Montgomery S (2004) Of towers, walls, and fields: perspectives on language in science. Science 303:1333–1335

A journal article with 2 authors

Kurtz J, Franz K (2003) Innate defence: evidence for memory in invertebrate immunity. Nature 425:37–38

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaufman YJ, Tanré D, Boucher O (2002) A satellite view of aerosols in the climate system. Nature 419:215–223

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gübeli RJ, Schöneweis K, Huzly D, et al (2013) Pharmacologically triggered hydrogel for scheduling hepatitis B vaccine administration. Sci Rep 3:2610

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Early WF II (2010) Contractor and Client Relations to Assure Process Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Chaudhry P (2013) Protecting Your Intellectual Property Rights: Understanding the Role of Management, Governments, Consumers and Pirates. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Bouchard F (2013) How Ecosystem Evolution Strengthens the Case for Functional Pluralism. In: Huneman P (ed) Functions: selection and mechanisms. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 83–95

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 Social Robotics.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Actual Fukushima Radiation Levels May Have Been Four Times Lower Than Official Estimates. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/actual-fukushima-radiation-levels-may-have-been-four-times-lower-than-official-estimates/. 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 (2008) Transportation Safety: Medical Certification and Background Check Requirements for Pilots, Vessel Masters, and Commercial Drivers Vary. 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

Davis M (2015) Opprobrious Identities: The Enslaving Effect of Black Respectability on Queer Black Men. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Vecsey G (2011) Days of a Dynasty Are Only a Memory For a Distinct Race. New York Times SP7

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 Social Robotics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Soc. Robot.
ISSN (print)	1875-4791
ISSN (online)	1875-4805
Scope	General Computer Science