How to format your references using the Journal of Location Based Services citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Location Based Services. 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	Download the output style file
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

Sage, Leslie. 2014. “Exoplanets.” Nature 513 (7518): 327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Green, David J., and Zeresenay Alemseged. 2012. “Australopithecus Afarensis Scapular Ontogeny, Function, and the Role of Climbing in Human Evolution.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6106): 514–517.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ishizawa, Nobuo, Hayato Setoguchi, and Kazumichi Yanagisawa. 2013. “Structural Evolution of Calcite at High Temperatures: Phase V Unveiled.” Scientific Reports 3 (October): 2832.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Das, Nandan, Subhasri Chatterjee, Satish Kumar, Asima Pradhan, Prasanta Panigrahi, I. Alex Vitkin, and Nirmalya Ghosh. 2014. “Tissue Multifractality and Born Approximation in Analysis of Light Scattering: A Novel Approach for Precancers Detection.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6129.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Frantzen, Allen J. 2012. Anglo-Saxon Keywords. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schwenker, Friedhelm, and Edmondo Trentin, eds. 2012. Partially Supervised Learning: First IAPR TC3 Workshop, PSL 2011, Ulm, Germany, September 15-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 7081. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rosenkrantz, Gary S. 2013. “The Metaphysics of Persons.” In Virtuous Thoughts: The Philosophy of Ernest Sosa, edited by John Turri, 55–72. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Location Based Services.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2017. “Scientists Create A Mind-Controlled Turtle.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-create-a-mindcontrolled-turtle/.

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. 2011. Information Technology: HUD’s Expenditure Plan Satisfies Statutory Conditions, and Implementation of Management Controls Is Under Way. GAO-11-762. 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

Gillaspy, Kelley Marie. 2012. “Words of Samsara.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Isherwood, Charles. 2015. “A Milkman Returns, Emotional as Ever.” New York Times, December 21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sage 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Sage 2014; Green and Alemseged 2012).

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

Two authors: (Green and Alemseged 2012)
Three authors: (Ishizawa, Setoguchi, and Yanagisawa 2013)
4 or more authors: (Das et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Location Based Services
Abbreviation	J. Location Based Serv.
ISSN (print)	1748-9725
ISSN (online)	1748-9733
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering