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]

K. S. Walton, Inorganic chemistry: Movies of a growth mechanism, Nature 523, (2015) 535.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. R. Pedersen and E. A. Gerken, Creation of visible artificial optical emissions in the aurora by high-power radio waves, Nature 433, (2005) 498.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Weiss, M. E. Kislev and A. Hartmann, Anthropology. Autonomous cultivation before domestication, Science 312, (2006) 1608.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

[1]

R. Nelson, M. R. Sawaya, M. Balbirnie, A. Ø. Madsen, C. Riekel, R. Grothe and D. Eisenberg, Structure of the cross-beta spine of amyloid-like fibrils, Nature 435, (2005) 773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Zecchina and S. Califano, The Development of Catalysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, (2017).

An edited book

[1]

W. J. Bock, I. Gannot and S. Tanev, Eds., Optical Waveguide Sensing and Imaging, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, (2008).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Zhu, Y. Li, G. He and X. Xia, An Intrinsic Evolvable Hardware Based on Multiplexer Module Array, in Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware: 7th International Conference, ICES 2007, Wuhan, China, September 21-23, 2007 Proceedings, L. Kang, Y. Liu, and S. Zeng, Eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2007).

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]

J. Fang, Harbor Porpoises Must Eat All The Time To Live, IFLScience, IFLScience, (2016)https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/harbor-porpoises-must-eat-all-time-to-live/ (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, Customs Automation: Weakness in Revenue Collection at John F. Kennedy International Airport, IMTEC-90-16, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1990).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. P. Cannon, Cenozoic kinematics of the Little Pine fault, Santa Maria Basin, California, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, (2013).

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]

B. Kenigsberg, Band Aid, in New York Times, (2017).

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