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

Staunton H (2008) Arousal by stimulation of deep-brain nuclei. Nature 452:E1; discussion E1-2

A journal article with 2 authors

Royer S, Paré D (2003) Conservation of total synaptic weight through balanced synaptic depression and potentiation. Nature 422:518–522

A journal article with 3 authors

Aviezer H, Trope Y, Todorov A (2012) Body cues, not facial expressions, discriminate between intense positive and negative emotions. Science 338:1225–1229

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li Y, Zhou Z, Cabrera CR, Chen Z (2013) Preserving the edge magnetism of zigzag graphene nanoribbons by ethylene termination: insight by Clar’s rule. Sci Rep 3:2030

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Belfiore LA (2010) Physical Properties of Macromolecules. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ascher W (2016) Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence: Insights on Conflict-Sensitive Development. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Liqat U, Kerrison S, Serrano A, et al (2014) Energy Consumption Analysis of Programs Based on XMOS ISA-Level Models. In: Gupta G, Peña R (eds) Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation: 23rd International Symposium, LOPSTR 2013, Madrid, Spain, September 18-19, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 72–90

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

Andrew E (2014) Astonishing Time-Lapse Of Hawaii’s Volcanoes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/astonishing-time-lapse-hawaiis-volcanoes/. 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 (1998) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Progress Made in Compliance of VA Systems, But Concerns 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

De La Cruz E (2014) School social work programing for an elementary school: A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kenigsberg B (2017) Read All About It, If You Still Can. New York Times C10

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