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

Osheroff DD (2013) Robert Richardson (1937-2013). Nature 495:450

A journal article with 2 authors

Ho L, Crabtree GR (2010) Chromatin remodelling during development. Nature 463:474–484

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuffen H, Smith R, Sammonds PR (2008) Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma. Nature 453:511–514

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yuan Y, Wang X, Mei B, et al (2013) Labeling thiols on proteins, living cells, and tissues with enhanced emission induced by FRET. Sci Rep 3:3523

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sox HC, Higgins MC, Owens DK (2013) Medical Decision Making. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Steinhoff G (2016) Regenerative Medicine - from Protocol to Patient: 4. Regenerative Therapies I, 3rd ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Tóth CD, Toussaint GT, Winslow A (2012) Open Guard Edges and Edge Guards in Simple Polygons. In: Márquez A, Ramos P, Urrutia J (eds) Computational Geometry: XIV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry, EGC 2011, Dedicated to Ferran Hurtado on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 27-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 54–64

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

Fang J (2015) Scientists Explain Why We Can’t Resist Puppy Dog Eyes. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/puppy-dog-eyes-boost-your-oxytocin/. 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 (2014) U.S. Launch Enterprise: Acquisition Best Practices Can Benefit Future Efforts. 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

Frantz DE (2014) The effects of Aroclor 1254 on the reproductive function of male round stingrays (Urobatis halleri). 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

Poniewozik J (2016) A Test From the Political Comedy Gods. 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

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