How to format your references using the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR). 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

Wadman, M.: Disappointment in slow-down for biomedical funding. Nature. 433, 559 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoshi, T., Lahiri, S.: Cell biology. Oxygen sensing: it’s a gas! Science. 306, 2050–2051 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Nosil, P., Crespi, B.J., Sandoval, C.P.: Host-plant adaptation drives the parallel evolution of reproductive isolation. Nature. 417, 440–443 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Plikus, M.V., Mayer, J.A., de la Cruz, D., Baker, R.E., Maini, P.K., Maxson, R., Chuong, C.-M.: Cyclic dermal BMP signalling regulates stem cell activation during hair regeneration. Nature. 451, 340–344 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kimball, R., Ross, M.: The Kimball Group Reader. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Indianapolis, IN, USA (2015)

An edited book

Casanovas, P., Pagallo, U., Sartor, G., Ajani, G. eds: AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems. Complex Systems, the Semantic Web, Ontologies, Argumentation, and Dialogue: International Workshops AICOL-I/IVR-XXIV Beijing, China, September19, 2009 and AICOL-II/JURIX 2009, Rotterdam,The Netherlands, December 16, 2009 Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

A chapter in an edited book

Kovarik, P., Castiglia, V., Janos, M.: Type I Interferons in Immune Defense Against Streptococci. In: Parker, D. (ed.) Bacterial Activation of Type I Interferons. pp. 43–59. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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 on Document Analysis and Recognition.

Blog post

Davis, J.: Australian Biosecurity Officials Incinerate Rare Botanical Collection Due To “Paperwork Mix-Up”

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: Biotechnology: Delays in and Status of EPA’s Efforts to Issue a TSCA Regulation. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1992)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lyngarkos, B.: Examination of the relative importance of website elements for users of manufacturers representative websites, (2015)

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

Wagner, J.: His Slump in the Past, a Met Ensures His Teammates’ Struggles Matter Less, (2017)

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 on Document Analysis and Recognition
Abbreviation	Int. J. Doc. Anal. Recognit.
ISSN (print)	1433-2833
ISSN (online)	1433-2825
Scope	Computer Science Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software