How to format your references using the ISA Transactions citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ISA Transactions. 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	Download the output style file
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]

Flight MH. Drug discovery: Structure-led design. Nature 2013;502:S50-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cruz G, Lowe G. Neural coding of binary mixtures in a structurally related odorant pair. Sci Rep 2013;3:1220.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Feldman MW, Lewontin RC, King M-C. Race: a genetic melting-pot. Nature 2003;424:374.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Evrard O, Chartin C, Onda Y, Lepage H, Cerdan O, Lefèvre I, et al. Renewed soil erosion and remobilisation of radioactive sediment in Fukushima coastal rivers after the 2013 typhoons. Sci Rep 2014;4:4574.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lyatkher VM. Seismic Loads. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Hahn H, Sidorenko A, Tiginyanu I, editors. Nanoscale Phenomena: Fundamentals and Applications. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rodman L. Canonical Forms for Symmetric and Skewsymmetric Quaternionic Matrix Pencils. In: Alpay D, Vinnikov V, editors. System Theory, the Schur Algorithm and Multidimensional Analysis, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2007, p. 199–254.

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 ISA Transactions.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Scientists Translate Dolphin Whistles. 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. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Effort to Modernize the System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ithier-Guzman W. Assessing the ability of soils and sediment to adsorb and retain cesium-137 in Puerto Rico. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2010.

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]

Feeney K. Cafeteria Fare, Korean-Style. New York Times 2010:NJ8.

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	ISA Transactions
Abbreviation	ISA Trans.
ISSN (print)	0019-0578
Scope	Computer Science Applications Electrical and Electronic Engineering Applied Mathematics Instrumentation