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]

C.H. Sekercioglu, Ecology. Functional extinctions of bird pollinators cause plant declines, Science. 331 (2011) 1019–1020.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Matsumoto, O. Hikosaka, Two types of dopamine neuron distinctly convey positive and negative motivational signals, Nature. 459 (2009) 837–841.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Basole, L.E. White, D. Fitzpatrick, Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex, Nature. 423 (2003) 986–990.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.D. Smith, T.E. Huxman, S.F. Zitzer, T.N. Charlet, D.C. Housman, J.S. Coleman, L.K. Fenstermaker, J.R. Seemann, R.S. Nowak, Elevated CO2 increases productivity and invasive species success in an arid ecosystem, Nature. 408 (2000) 79–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.N. Subramanian, Polymer Blends and Composites, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

M.D. Alam, Project-Management in Practice: A Guideline and Toolbox for Successful Projects, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Montini, The Impact of International Treaties on Climate Change in SEE Countries, in: M. Montini, S. Bogdanovic (Eds.), Environmental Security in South-Eastern Europe: International Agreements and Their Implementation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011: pp. 59–75.

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]

E. Andrew, Is It Really OK To Eat Food That’s Fallen On The Floor?, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/it-really-ok-eat-food-s-fallen-floor/ (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, Security of Computer Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Bogenreif, Rachmaninoff’s Sonata For Cello and Piano: A Staple in the Cello and Piano Repertoire, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

M.M. Chapman, 17-Year Sentence in Michigan Shooting, New York Times. (2014) A16.

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

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