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]

B.R. Cullen, Immunology. Outwitted by viral RNAs, Science 317 (2007) 329–330.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.L. Johnson, A.M. Spence, Epigenetic licensing of germline gene expression by maternal RNA in C. elegans, Science 333 (2011) 1311–1314.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B.J. Enquist, J.P. Haskell, B.H. Tiffney, General patterns of taxonomic and biomass partitioning in extant and fossil plant communities, Nature 419 (2002) 610–613.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.V. Morris, S.W.-L. Chan, S.E. Jacobsen, D.J. Looney, Small interfering RNA-induced transcriptional gene silencing in human cells, Science 305 (2004) 1289–1292.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Bahadori, Waste Management in the Chemical and Petroleum Industries, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

D. Kazakov, G. Smadja, eds., Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Interface: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Particle Physics and Cosmology: The Interface Cargèse, France 4–16 August 2003, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Noble, R. Piddocke, D. Bakmand-Mikalski, Deploying the Search Center, in: R. Piddocke, D. Bakmand-Mikalski (Eds.), Pro SharePoint 2010 Search, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2011: pp. 109–119.

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]

D. Andrew, New DNA Study Confirms Ancient Aborigines Were The First Australians, IFLScience (2016).

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, ICBM Modernization: Status of the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Missile System, 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]

D.C. Frost, Quantitative correlational study of communication satisfaction related to organizational proximity and face-to-face communication, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2009.

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]

L.F. Burghardt, In Great Neck, a Debate On Firefighter Housing, New York Times (2006) 14LI2.

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