How to format your references using the Journal of Information Security and Applications citation style

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

Epstein IR. Chemistry. Can droplets and bubbles think? Science 2007;315:775–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hickman AJ, Sanford MS. High-valent organometallic copper and palladium in catalysis. Nature 2012;484:177–85.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

McMahon SM, Miller KH, Drake J. Social science and ecology. Networking tips for social scientists and ecologists. Science 2001;293:1604–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gao PX, Ding Y, Mai W, Hughes WL, Lao C, Wang ZL. Conversion of zinc oxide nanobelts into superlattice-structured nanohelices. Science 2005;309:1700–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bitam S, Mellouk A. Bio-Inspired Routing Protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Gallego M, Schofield N, editors. The Political Economy of Social Choices. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vormbaum T, Bohlander M. § 5 The Twentieth Century. In: Bohlander M, editor. A Modern History of German Criminal Law, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 127–249.

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 Information Security and Applications.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Why Are Humans Altruistic? 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. Student Financial Aid: Data Not Fully Utilized to Identify Inappropriately Awarded Loans and Grants. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Britt AL. The Long-Term Impact of Preschool Education on Student Achievement. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 2014.

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]

Van Gelder SKC by L. Arts, Briefly; Coppola and Putin Meet. New York Times 2005:E2.

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 Information Security and Applications
Abbreviation	J. Inf. Secur. Appl.
ISSN (print)	2214-2126
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Software Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality