How to format your references using the Journal of Instrumentation citation style

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

A. L. Goldberg, Protein degradation and protection against misfolded or damaged proteins, Nature 426, (2003) 895.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I. Ciufolini and E. C. Pavlis, A confirmation of the general relativistic prediction of the Lense-Thirring effect, Nature 431, (2004) 958.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Giovannoni, B. Temperton and Y. Zhao, Giovannoni et al. reply, Nature 499, (2013) E4.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

[1]

T. R. Kulp, S. E. Hoeft, M. Asao, M. T. Madigan, J. T. Hollibaugh, J. C. Fisher, J. F. Stolz, C. W. Culbertson, L. G. Miller, et al., Arsenic(III) fuels anoxygenic photosynthesis in hot spring biofilms from Mono Lake, California, Science 321, (2008) 967.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. N. Seyfried, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, (2012).

An edited book

[1]

M. Terabe and J. A. Berzofsky, Eds., Natural Killer T Cells: Balancing the Regulation of Tumor Immunity, 1st ed., Springer, New York, NY, (2012).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Miglinaitė, Global Civil Society as a Humanitarian Actor: Constituting a Right of Humanitarian Assistance, in The Humanitarian Challenge: 20 Years European Network on Humanitarian Action (NOHA), P. Gibbons and H.-J. Heintze, Eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, (2015).

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 Instrumentation.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, Distant Quasars Have Halos That Defy Expectations, IFLScience, IFLScience, (2016)https://www.iflscience.com/space/distant-quasars-have-halos-that-defy-expectations/ (30 October 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, Reagan National Airport: Update on Capacity to Handle Additional Flights and Impact on Other Area Airports, GAO-07-352, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2007).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Skinner, Artistiya: Popular music and personhood in postcolonial Bamako, Mali, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, (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]

J. Wagner, Seven More Call-Ups, Four Homers and a Victory, in New York Times, (2016).

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 Instrumentation
Abbreviation	J. Instrum.
ISSN (online)	1748-0221
Scope	Mathematical Physics Instrumentation