How to format your references using the Internet of Things citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Internet of Things. 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

[1]

A. Gaudet, A grad school survival guide, Science. 347 (2015) 1386.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.J. Oppenheimer, M. Richards, Polynesian origins. Slow boat to Melanesia?, Nature. 410 (2001) 166–167.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Abel, G.L. Bryan, M.L. Norman, The formation of the first star in the Universe, Science. 295 (2002) 93–98.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Hirata, S. Yoshiura, T. Ohtsuka, Y. Bessho, T. Harada, K. Yoshikawa, R. Kageyama, Oscillatory expression of the bHLH factor Hes1 regulated by a negative feedback loop, Science. 298 (2002) 840–843.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Bates, C. Gallon, M. Bocci, S. Walker, T. Taylor, Converged Multimedia Networks, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

K.S. Rao, Robust Emotion Recognition using Spectral and Prosodic Features, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Kurematsu, J. Hakura, H. Fujita, A Framework for a Decision Tree Learning Algorithm with K-NN, in: H. Fujita, A. Selamat (Eds.), Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques: 13th International Conference, SoMeT 2014, Langkawi, Malaysia, September 22-24, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 39–51.

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 Internet of Things.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, China Could Start A Wind Power Revolution By 2030, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-start-wind-power-revolution-2030/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Supplemental Student Loans: Who Borrows and Who Defaults, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.J. Barbeau, A Location-Aware Architecture Supporting Intelligent Real-Time Mobile Applications, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 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

[1]

M. Pilon, Symbols for Satire, New York Times. (2012) B10.

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	Internet of Things
ISSN (print)	2542-6605
Scope