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

Wadman, Meredith. 2007. “Moment of Reckoning.” Nature 446 (7138): 844–845.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hughes, Richard, and Jane Nordholt. 2011. “Physics. Refining Quantum Cryptography.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333 (6049): 1584–1586.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sobolevsky, Alexander I., Michael P. Rosconi, and Eric Gouaux. 2009. “X-Ray Structure, Symmetry and Mechanism of an AMPA-Subtype Glutamate Receptor.” Nature 462 (7274): 745–756.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Karlas, Alexander, Nikolaus Machuy, Yujin Shin, Klaus-Peter Pleissner, Anita Artarini, Dagmar Heuer, Daniel Becker, et al. 2010. “Genome-Wide RNAi Screen Identifies Human Host Factors Crucial for Influenza Virus Replication.” Nature 463 (7282): 818–822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

d’Andria, Aude, and Inés Gabarret. 2017. Building 21st Century Entrepreneurship. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Holzinger, Andreas, Martina Ziefle, Martin Hitz, and Matjaž Debevc, eds. 2013. Human Factors in Computing and Informatics: First International Conference, SouthCHI 2013, Maribor, Slovenia, July 1-3, 2013. Proceedings. Vol. 7946. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schubert, G., and H. Fehske. 2009. “Quantum Percolation in Disordered Structures.” In Quantum and Semi-Classical Percolation and Breakdown in Disordered Solids, edited by Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Kamal K. Bardhan, and Asok K. Sen, 1–28. Lecture Notes in Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2015. “Light Transformed For Capture By Solar Cells.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/light-transformed-capture-solar-cells/.

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. 1997. Airport Financing: Compliance With Federal Grant Requirements. RCED-97-179R. 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

Crump, Sharlyn. 2015. “The Efficacy of an Academic Behavior Assessment Tool for the Functional Behavior Assessment Process.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Kelly, Sean. 1992. “There’s Nothing Like a Dame.” New York Times, November 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wadman 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Wadman 2007; Hughes and Nordholt 2011).

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

Two authors: (Hughes and Nordholt 2011)
Three authors: (Sobolevsky, Rosconi, and Gouaux 2009)
4 or more authors: (Karlas et al. 2010)

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