How to format your references using the International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management. 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

Serrano M (2011) Cancer: final act of senescence. Nature 479:481–482

A journal article with 2 authors

Yi X, Liu C (2014) Retention of cotyledons is crucial for resprouting of clipped oak seedlings. Sci Rep 4:5145

A journal article with 3 authors

Mutanen M, Kaila L, Tabell J (2013) Wide-ranging barcoding aids discovery of one-third increase of species richness in presumably well-investigated moths. Sci Rep 3:2901

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tsujimoto T, Jeromin A, Saitoh N, et al (2002) Neuronal calcium sensor 1 and activity-dependent facilitation of P/Q-type calcium currents at presynaptic nerve terminals. Science 295:2276–2279

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cannataro M, Guzzi PH (2011) Data Management of Protein Interaction Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rodríguez-Bolívar MP (ed) (2014) Measuring E-government Efficiency: The Opinions of Public Administrators and Other Stakeholders. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Borst P, Wielinga P (2007) Pumping Out Drugs. In: Peters GJ (ed) Deoxynucleoside Analogs In Cancer Therapy. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 109–117

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 System Assurance Engineering and Management.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Sparkling Galaxy Cluster Core Inexplicably Wakes Up. In: IFLScience. 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) 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

Wright JL (2015) Shade Tolerance and Physiological Response to Light Regime of the Invasive Species Lonicera maackii (Amur honeysuckle). 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

Billard M (2010) Scouting Report. New York Times E5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Serrano 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Serrano 2011; Yi and Liu 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Yi and Liu 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tsujimoto et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management
ISSN (print)	0975-6809
ISSN (online)	0976-4348
Scope	Strategy and Management Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality