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

Victor D (2009) Plan B for Copenhagen. Nature 461:342–344

A journal article with 2 authors

Sur M, Rubenstein JLR (2005) Patterning and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. Science 310:805–810

A journal article with 3 authors

Werlen G, Hausmann B, Palmer E (2000) A motif in the alphabeta T-cell receptor controls positive selection by modulating ERK activity. Nature 406:422–426

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Qi Y, Gregory MA, Li Z, et al (2004) p19ARF directly and differentially controls the functions of c-Myc independently of p53. Nature 431:712–717

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blackwood N (2014) Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Liyanage I, Walker T (2014) English for Academic Purposes (EAP) in Asia: Negotiating Appropriate Practices in a Global Context. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Cheung R (2009) A Context-Aware Adaptation Model for Efficient Web Browsing on Mobile Devices. In: Kim T-H, Yang LT, Park JH, et al (eds) Advances in Communication and Networking: Second International Conference on Future Generation Communication and Networking, FGCN 2008, Sanya, Hainan Island, China, December 13-15, 2008. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–54

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 (2015) Would You Take A Bath In Red Wine For Your Health? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/would-you-take-bath-red-wine-your-health/. 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 (2000) Elementary and Secondary Education: Flexibility Initiatives Do Not Address Districts’ Key Concerns About Federal Requirements. 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

Ware SC (2014) Alcohol consumption and breast cancer risk in older women: A modifiable lifestyle risk factor. 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

Castle S (2017) Britain Initiates ‘Brexit,’ Wading Into Thorny Divorce From E.U. New York Times A11

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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