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

Blobel G (2013) Christian de Duve (1917-2013). Nature 498:300

A journal article with 2 authors

Brodsky EE, Lay T (2014) Geophysics. Recognizing foreshocks from the 1 April 2014 Chile earthquake. Science 344:700–702

A journal article with 3 authors

Schroder K, Zhou R, Tschopp J (2010) The NLRP3 inflammasome: a sensor for metabolic danger? Science 327:296–300

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Misra S, Puertollano R, Kato Y, et al (2002) Structural basis for acidic-cluster-dileucine sorting-signal recognition by VHS domains. Nature 415:933–937

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hens H (2012) Building Physics: Heat, Air and Moisture. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Schneider K (2006) Highly Sensitive Optical Receivers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Martella C, Shaposhnik R, Logothetis D (2015) Working with Giraph. In: Shaposhnik R, Logothetis D (eds) Practical Graph Analytics with Apache Giraph. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 109–136

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

Taub B (2016) British DNA Isn’t Quite As British As You’d Expect. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/british-dna-isnt-quite-british-youd-expect/. 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 (1972) Follow-up Review on Assistance to War Victims in Vietnam. 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

Parker HA (2017) Virtual Mate Poaching: A study of the tactics used to poach a potential mate on Social Networking Sites. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Vecsey G (2010) Induct Steinbrenner? Let’s Think About This. New York Times B15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blobel 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Blobel 2013; Brodsky and Lay 2014).

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

Two authors: (Brodsky and Lay 2014)
Three or more authors: (Misra 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

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