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]

Running SW. Ecology. A measurable planetary boundary for the biosphere. Science 2012;337:1458–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Coffelt SB, de Visser KE. Cancer: Inflammation lights the way to metastasis. Nature 2014;507:48–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schaedler TA, Jacobsen AJ, Carter WB. Materials science. Toward lighter, stiffer materials. Science 2013;341:1181–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cognet L, Tsyboulski DA, Rocha J-DR, Doyle CD, Tour JM, Weisman RB. Stepwise quenching of exciton fluorescence in carbon nanotubes by single-molecule reactions. Science 2007;316:1465–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lee WF. Verilog Coding for Logic Synthesis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

de Zwaan J, Lak M, Makinwa A, Willems P, editors. Governance and Security Issues of the European Union: Challenges Ahead. The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Kwak D, Kiris CC. Flow Solvers and Validation. In: Kiris CC, editor. Computation of Viscous Incompressible Flows, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011, p. 79–138.

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. Studies Reveal Health Risks Of E-Cigarettes. 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. [Comments on NASA Agreement With Firm for Commercial Launch Services]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lieberman DS. “Stroke Your Thoroughbreds and Kick Your Donkeys”: Power and the Secondary Administrative Distribution of Teaching Assignments. 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]

Wagner J. Mets Hope a Little Rest Will Suffice for Cabrera. New York Times 2017:B9.

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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