How to format your references using the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer. 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

Triendl, R.: Japan sets tissue donor guidelines. Nature. 404, 529 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lorincz, A., Nusser, Z.: Molecular identity of dendritic voltage-gated sodium channels. Science. 328, 906–909 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Hirjibehedin, C.F., Lutz, C.P., Heinrich, A.J.: Spin coupling in engineered atomic structures. Science. 312, 1021–1024 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Paris, F., Fuks, Z., Kang, A., Capodieci, P., Juan, G., Ehleiter, D., Haimovitz-Friedman, A., Cordon-Cardo, C., Kolesnick, R.: Endothelial apoptosis as the primary lesion initiating intestinal radiation damage in mice. Science. 293, 293–297 (2001)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Galwey, N.W.: Introduction to Mixed Modelling. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Fiadeiro, J.L., Schobbens, P.-Y. eds: Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques: 18th International Workshop, WADT 2006, La Roche en Ardenne, Belgium, June 1-3, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Pfennig, A., Zastrow, P., Kranzmann, A.: Supercritical CO2-Corrosion in Heat Treated Steel Pipes during Carbon Capture and Storage CCS. In: Hou, M.Z., Xie, H., and Were, P. (eds.) Clean Energy Systems in the Subsurface: Production, Storage and Conversion: Proceedings of the 3rd Sino-German Conference “Underground Storage of CO2 and Energy”, Goslar, Germany, 21-23 May 2013. pp. 39–51. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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 Software Tools for Technology Transfer.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: Humpback Whale “Supergroups” Seen Having Their Own Raves, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/humpback-whale-supergroups-raves/

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: DOD Business Systems Modernization: Important Progress Made to Develop Business Enterprise Architecture, but Much Work Remains. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2003)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bryant, D.: A good story changes everything, (2012)

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

Whiteside, K.: In Family’s Footsteps, Minor Takes Big Stage, (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 Software Tools for Technology Transfer
Abbreviation	Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf.
ISSN (print)	1433-2779
ISSN (online)	1433-2787
Scope	Information Systems Software