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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Information Technology (JIT). 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

Leovy, C. (2001). Weather and climate on Mars, Nature 412(6843): 245–249.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eames, M. and Kortemme, T. (2012). Cost-benefit tradeoffs in engineered lac operons, Science (New York, N.Y.) 336(6083): 911–915.

A journal article with 3 authors

Eremtchenko, M., Schaefer, J. A. and Tautz, F. S. (2003). Understanding and tuning the epitaxy of large aromatic adsorbates by molecular design, Nature 425(6958): 602–605.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Szakonyi, G., Guthridge, J. M., Li, D., Young, K., Holers, V. M. and Chen, X. S. (2001). Structure of complement receptor 2 in complex with its C3d ligand, Science (New York, N.Y.) 292(5522): 1725–1728.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radcliff, P. B. (2017). Modern Spain, Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Domingo, E. and Schuster, P. (Eds.). (2016). Quasispecies: From Theory to Experimental Systems, 1st ed. 2016., Vol. 392, Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Kota, C. R. and Chaitanya, K. (2015). Noval Asynchronous Addition Architectures for Portable Applications, In N. R. Shetty, N. H. Prasad, & N. Nalini (Eds.), Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications: ERCICA 2015, Volume 1, New Delhi: Springer India, pp. 41–52.

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 Technology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 6). Warning: The Truth Behind Handshake-Sniffing May Bum You Out, IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/warning-truth-behind-handshake-sniffing-may-bum-you-out/

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

Government Accountability Office. (2006). Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites: Additional Action Needed to Incorporate Lessons Learned from Other Satellite Programs (No. GAO-06-1129T), Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DeLutis-Eichenberger, A. N. (2010). El proceso semiótico de un héroe decimonónico: Un estudio en torno a los “textos-tumbas” de Andrés Bello (Doctoral dissertation).

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

Chavez, L. (2006, March 30). American Dreams, Foreign Flags, New York Times, p. A25.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Leovy, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Eames and Kortemme, 2012; Leovy, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Eames and Kortemme, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Szakonyi et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Information Technology
Abbreviation	J. Inf. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0268-3962
ISSN (online)	1466-4437
Scope	Strategy and Management Information Systems Library and Information Sciences