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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Hammerer K. Physics. Quantum mechanics tackles mechanics. Science 2013;342:702–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Barbraud C, Weimerskirch H. Emperor penguins and climate change. Nature 2001;411:183–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kalka MB, Smith AR, Kalko EKV. Bats limit arthropods and herbivory in a tropical forest. Science 2008;320:71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bai L-P, Hagihara M, Nakatani K, Jiang Z-H. Recognition of chelerythrine to human telomeric DNA and RNA G-quadruplexes. Sci Rep 2014;4:6767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Burrell DB. Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Vestergaard MC, Kerman K, Hsing I-M, Tamiya E, editors. Nanobiosensors and Nanobioanalyses. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pathan A-SK, Hong CS. Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In: Misra S, Woungang I, Chandra Misra S, editors. Guide to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, London: Springer; 2009, p. 59–96.

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]

Taub B. Exercise Massively Increases Life Expectancy Of Brain-Damaged Mice. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/exercise-massively-increases-life-expectancy-of-braindamaged-mice/ (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. Tactical Airlift: Issues Concerning Air Force Plans for Pacific Distribution System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Faynblut V. College access: A case study of Latino charter school students and their K-16 pathways. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2016.

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]

Wagner J. Tough Architect of the Mets. New York Times 2017:D1.

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