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]

White NJ. Qinghaosu (artemisinin): the price of success. Science 2008;320:330–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Herlihy CR, Eckert CG. Genetic cost of reproductive assurance in a self-fertilizing plant. Nature 2002;416:320–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hellweger FL, van Sebille E, Fredrick ND. Biogeographic patterns in ocean microbes emerge in a neutral agent-based model. Science 2014;345:1346–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Santander-Syro AF, Copie O, Kondo T, Fortuna F, Pailhès S, Weht R, et al. Two-dimensional electron gas with universal subbands at the surface of SrTiO(3). Nature 2011;469:189–93.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bunnell T. From World City to the World in One City. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Jansen M. Second Generation Wavelets and Applications. London: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Walker LEA, Pann JM, Shapiro DL, Van Hasselt VB. Competency Restoration Programs. In: Pann JM, Shapiro DL, Van Hasselt VB, editors. Best Practices for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 51–5.

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. Two More Mysterious Siberian Craters Discovered. 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. Transportation Infrastructure: Advantages and Disadvantages of Wrap-Up Insurance for Large Construction Projects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Byeon G. More than words: A comparative study of Liszt’s Liebesträume and the songs from which they were transcribed. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Jacoby S. Sick and Tired of ‘God Bless America.’ New York Times 2016:SR3.

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

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