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]

J.A. Spudich, Biochemistry. Molecular motors, beauty in complexity, Science 331 (2011) 1143–1144.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Angelo, M.R. Van Gilst, Starvation protects germline stem cells and extends reproductive longevity in C. elegans, Science 326 (2009) 954–958.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Selje, M. Simon, T. Brinkhoff, A newly discovered Roseobacter cluster in temperate and polar oceans, Nature 427 (2004) 445–448.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.A. Farrer, D.A. Henk, D. MacLean, D.J. Studholme, M.C. Fisher, Using false discovery rates to benchmark SNP-callers in next-generation sequencing projects, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.B. Jones, 20% Chance of Rain, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

E.R. Hancock, R.R. Martin, M.A. Sabin, eds., Mathematics of Surfaces XIII: 13th IMA International Conference York, UK, September 7-9, 2009 Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. Wein, A. Ladikos, B. Fuerst, A. Shah, K. Sharma, N. Navab, Global Registration of Ultrasound to MRI Using the LC2 Metric for Enabling Neurosurgical Guidance, in: K. Mori, I. Sakuma, Y. Sato, C. Barillot, N. Navab (Eds.), Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2013: 16th International Conference, Nagoya, Japan, September 22-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 34–41.

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]

A. Carpineti, There Might Be An Ocean Underneath Pluto’s Surface, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/there-might-be-an-ocean-underneath-plutos-surface/ (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, Commercial Aviation: Impact of Airline Crew Scheduling on Delays and Cancellations of Commercial Flights, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.E. DeLima, Implementing an Innovative Educational Program in an Era of Accountability: An Interview Study of the Expeditionary Learning Program, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017.

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]

T. Cowen, Signs of a Shakier New Normal, New York Times (2015) BU3.

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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