How to format your references using the Journal of Industrial Information Integration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Industrial Information Integration. 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]

T.A. Ensslin, Astronomy. Radio traces of cosmic shock waves, Science 314 (2006) 772–773.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

U.B. Göhlich, L.M. Chiappe, A new carnivorous dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen archipelago, Nature 440 (2006) 329–332.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L.J. Terry, E.B. Shows, S.R. Wente, Crossing the nuclear envelope: hierarchical regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport, Science 318 (2007) 1412–1416.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Laval, S.L. Cady, J.C. Pollack, C.P. McKay, J.S. Bird, J.P. Grotzinger, D.C. Ford, H.R. Bohm, Modern freshwater microbialite analogues for ancient dendritic reef structures, Nature 407 (2000) 626–629.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.P. Abulencia, L. Theodore, Open-Ended Problems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

N. Alfirević, J. Burušić, J. Pavičić, R. Relja, eds., School Effectiveness and Educational Management: Towards a South-Eastern Europe Research and Public Policy Agenda, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Nagaraja, Characterizations of Probability Distributions, in: H. Pham (Ed.), Springer Handbook of Engineering Statistics, Springer, London, 2006: pp. 79–95.

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 Journal of Industrial Information Integration.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Scientists Control Light Wakes For The First Time, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/wake-light/ (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, Desegregation Activities: Administration of Education Grant Funds at the Cleveland School District, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.T. Brown, Evaluation of a social science simulation by uncertainty analysis and comparison, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

M.R. Gordon, I. Nechepurenko, U.S. Is Warned After It Downs Syrian Fighter, New York Times (2017) A1.

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	Journal of Industrial Information Integration
Abbreviation	J. Ind. Inf. Integr.
ISSN (print)	2452-414X
Scope	Information Systems and Management Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering