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

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

A journal article with 2 authors

Torquato S, Jiao Y (2009) Dense packings of the Platonic and Archimedean solids. Nature 460:876–879

A journal article with 3 authors

Sharp PM, Rayner JC, Hahn BH (2013) Evolution. Great apes and zoonoses. Science 340:284–286

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee H-R, Lee K, Cho J, et al (2014) Spin-orbit torque in a bulk perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Pd/FePd/MgO system. Sci Rep 4:6548

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg SM (2013) Accounting Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

An edited book

Akhmet M (2016) Replication of Chaos in Neural Networks, Economics and Physics, 1st ed. 2016. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Datta I, Majumdar D, Ganapathy K, Bhonde RR (2014) Stem Cells and Neuronal Differentiation. In: Somasundaram I (ed) Stem Cell Therapy for Organ Failure. Springer India, New Delhi, pp 71–101

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 (2012) Breakthrough For Organ Transplants As Heart Tissue Deep Frozen And Revived. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/breakthrough-for-organ-transplants-as-heart-tissue-deep-frozen-and-revived/. 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 (1972) Multiple Protests Against Contract Award. 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

Ziv A (2014) Dynamics in interactions with digital technology: A depth psychological/theoretical exploration of the evolutionary-biological, symbolic, and emotional psyche in the digital age. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Brantley B (2017) A Princess (Maybe) With an Identity Crisis. New York Times C1

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