How to format your references using the Journal of Internet Services and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Internet Services 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. Hassan MHA. Nanotechnology. Small things and big changes in the developing world. Science. 2005;309:65–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Adam C, Vidal V. Mantle flow drives the subsidence of oceanic plates. Science. 2010;328:83–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Sørensen TL-M, Møller JV, Nissen P. Phosphoryl transfer and calcium ion occlusion in the calcium pump. Science. 2004;304:1672–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Brüggemann H, Henne A, Hoster F, Liesegang H, Wiezer A, Strittmatter A, et al. The complete genome sequence of Propionibacterium acnes, a commensal of human skin. Science. 2004;305:671–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Traitler H, Coleman B, Hofmann K. Food Industry Design, Technology and Innovation. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Jakus G. Concepts, Ontologies, and Knowledge Representation. Milutinović V, Omerović S, Tomažič S, editors. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Draghici A. Influence of Multi-Culturality in Virtual Teams. In: Bernard A, Tichkiewitch S, editors. Methods and Tools for Effective Knowledge Life-Cycle-Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008. p. 61–89.

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 Internet Services and Applications.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. Young Girl Asks Top Republican “Do You Believe In Science? Because I Do!” [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/young-girl-asks-top-republican-do-you-believe-in-science-because-i-do/

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. Office of Personnel Management: Agency Needs to Improve Outcome Measures to Demonstrate the Value of Its Innovation Lab. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014 Mar. Report No.: GAO-14-306.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Williams C. It’s not a beauty pageant!: An examination of leadership development through Alaska native pageants [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 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. Feeney K. QUICK BITE: Cranford; Cranford Didn’t Get the Olympics, Either. New York Times. 2005 Jul 24;14NJ13.

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 Internet Services and Applications
Abbreviation	J. Internet Serv. Appl.
ISSN (print)	1867-4828
ISSN (online)	1869-0238
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications