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

Gibson, S.: Journal club. An organic chemist highlights an ingenious way to make radiotracers. Nature. 457, 515 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Domokos, G., Scheuring, I.: Random perturbations and lattice effects in chaotic population dynamics. Science. 297, 2163; discussion 2163 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Agrawal, A., Chhatre, A., Hardin, R.: Changing governance of the world’s forests. Science. 320, 1460–1462 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sørensen, A., Duan, L.M., Cirac, J.I., Zoller, P.: Many-particle entanglement with Bose-Einstein condensates. Nature. 409, 63–66 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vegh, A.: Web Development with the Mac®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA (2010)

An edited book

Cai, K.: Supervisor Localization: A Top-Down Approach to Distributed Control of Discrete-Event Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Kavita Ramakrishnan: “Propertied Ambiguity”: Negotiating the State in a Delhi Resettlement Colony. In: Chakravarty, S. and Negi, R. (eds.) Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi. pp. 59–76. Springer India, New Delhi (2016)

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.: Newly Discovered Oldest Human Fossils Push Our Origin Back By 100,000 Years, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/newly-discovered-oldest-human-fossils-push-our-origin-back-by-100000-years/

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: Improving Social Security Administration Procedures for Acquiring ADP and Telecommunications Resources. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1980)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nesbit, P.R.: Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles and Structure from Motion: A fresh approach to photogrammetry, (2014)

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

Sisario, B.: Drake and Ed Sheeran Top the Chart, Again, (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