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

Carbone A (2013) Information measure for long-range correlated sequences: the case of the 24 human chromosomes. Sci Rep 3:2721

A journal article with 2 authors

Tahir M, Schwingenschlögl U (2013) Valley polarized quantum Hall effect and topological insulator phase transitions in silicene. Sci Rep 3:1075

A journal article with 3 authors

Wu T, Werner H-J, Manthe U (2004) First-principles theory for the H + CH4 --> H2 + CH3 reaction. Science 306:2227–2229

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Szenker-Ravi E, Altunoglu U, Leushacke M, et al (2018) RSPO2 inhibition of RNF43 and ZNRF3 governs limb development independently of LGR4/5/6. Nature 557:564–569

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiens JA (2016) Ecological Challenges and Conservation Conundrums. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Redmond J, Pombo Martins O, Nepomuceno Fernández Á (eds) (2016) Epistemology, Knowledge and the Impact of Interaction. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Sarachik MP (2014) Magnetic Avalanches in Molecular Magnets. In: Bartolomé J, Luis F, Fernández JF (eds) Molecular Magnets: Physics and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 113–127

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

Andrews R (2016) Scientists Have Finally Solved 50-Year-Old Mystery Of Bizarre Signals. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/scientists-finally-solve-50-year-old-mystery-atmospheric-echoes/. 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 (2006) Fiscal Year 2007 Performance Plans. 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

Binney I (2014) Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Work Engagement and Turnover Intentions in a Long-Term Care Facility: A Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Hartman S (2015) Love, Redeployed. New York Times MB1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Carbone 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Carbone 2013; Tahir and Schwingenschlögl 2013).

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

Two authors: (Tahir and Schwingenschlögl 2013)
Three or more authors: (Szenker-Ravi et al. 2018)

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