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]

M. Hallett, Transcranial magnetic stimulation and the human brain, Nature 406 (2000) 147–150.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.A. Endow, H. Higuchi, A mutant of the motor protein kinesin that moves in both directions on microtubules, Nature 406 (2000) 913–916.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Stajic, R. Coontz, I. Osborne, Superconductivity. Happy 100th, superconductivity! Introduction, Science 332 (2011) 189.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.R. Stevens, R. Seifert, B. Bufe, F. Müller, E. Kremmer, R. Gauss, W. Meyerhof, U.B. Kaupp, B. Lindemann, Hyperpolarization-activated channels HCN1 and HCN4 mediate responses to sour stimuli, Nature 413 (2001) 631–635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

U. Deichmann, Flüchten, Mitmachen, Vergessen, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

T.A.L. Brevini, ed., Stem Cells in Animal Species: From Pre-clinic to Biodiversity, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

X. Gonzalvo, P. Taylor, C. Monzo, I. Iriondo, J.C. Socoró, High Quality Emotional HMM-Based Synthesis in Spanish, in: J. Solé-Casals, V. Zaiats (Eds.), Advances in Nonlinear Speech Processing: International Conference on Nonlinear Speech Processing, NOLISP 2009, Vic, Spain, June 25-27. Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 26–34.

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]

E. Andrew, Watch Diver Fend Off Sea Lion Attack, IFLScience (2014).

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, Transportation Security Administration: TSA Executive Attrition Has Declined, but Better Information Is Needed on Reasons for Leaving and Executive Hiring Process, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Albers, One Academic Year Study of Experiences of One Cohort of Graduates from a Midwestern University’s Teacher Education Program, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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

[1]

L. Yablonsky, Coast Garde, New York Times (2011) M224.

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
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