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]

DeWeerdt S. Psychodermatology: An emotional response. Nature 2012;492:S62-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Macosko EZ, McCarroll SA. Genetics. Our fallen genomes. Science 2013;342:564–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tateishi-Karimata H, Nakano M, Sugimoto N. Comparable stability of Hoogsteen and Watson-Crick base pairs in ionic liquid choline dihydrogen phosphate. Sci Rep 2014;4:3593.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Tamura A, Ikeda G, Seo J-H, Tsuchiya K, Yajima H, Sasaki Y, et al. Molecular logistics using cytocleavable polyrotaxanes for the reactivation of enzymes delivered in living cells. Sci Rep 2013;3:2252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Terré M, Pischella M, Vivier E. Wireless Telecommunication Systems. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Zhou Z-R. Dental Biotribology. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Reimair F, Teufl P, Zefferer T. CrySIL: Bringing Crypto to the Modern User. In: Monfort V, Krempels K-H, Majchrzak TA, Turk Ž, editors. Web Information Systems and Technologies: 11th International Conference, WEBIST 2015, Lisbon, Portugal, May 20–22, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 70–90.

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]

Andrew E. In Defence Of Ecovillages: The Communities That Can Teach The World To Live Sustainably. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/defence-ecovillages-communities-can-teach-world-live-sustainably/ (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. Data on the Office of Education’s Use of Funds for Conferences, Seminars, and Training Sessions, and Consultants, Experts, and Consulting Organizations in Lieu of Federal Employees. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chan AB. Beyond dynamic textures: A family of stochastic dynamical models for video with applications to computer vision. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 2008.

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]

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times 2017:C23.

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

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