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

Watts, Duncan J. 2007. “A Twenty-First Century Science.” Nature 445 (7127): 489.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bruno, Randy M., and Bert Sakmann. 2006. “Cortex Is Driven by Weak but Synchronously Active Thalamocortical Synapses.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 312 (5780): 1622–1627.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sackmann, Eric K., Anna L. Fulton, and David J. Beebe. 2014. “The Present and Future Role of Microfluidics in Biomedical Research.” Nature 507 (7491): 181–189.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Hu, Xiangang, Jia Kang, Kaicheng Lu, Ruiren Zhou, Li Mu, and Qixing Zhou. 2014. “Graphene Oxide Amplifies the Phytotoxicity of Arsenic in Wheat.” Scientific Reports 4 (August): 6122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety. 2012. Guidelines for Engineering Design for Process Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rudolph, K. Lenhard, ed. 2008. Telomeres and Telomerase in Ageing, Disease, and Cancer: Molecular Mechanisms of Adult Stem Cell Ageing. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brisson, António, Brian Magerko, and Ana Paiva. 2011. “Tilt Riders: Improvisational Agents Who Know What the Scene Is About.” In Intelligent Virtual Agents: 10th International Conference, IVA 2011, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 15-17, 2011. Proceedings, edited by Hannes Högni Vilhjálmsson, Stefan Kopp, Stacy Marsella, and Kristinn R. Thórisson, 35–41. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 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

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Once Again, Scientists Conclude That There’s No Evidence That Homeopathy Works.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. Commercial Motor Carriers: DOT Is Shifting to Performance-Based Standards to Assess Whether Carriers Operate Safely. RCED-98-8. 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

Rodriguez, Rafael M. 2017. “Experimental Evaluation of Cooling Effectiveness and Water Conservation in a Poultry House Using Flow Blurring Atomizers.” Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Koblin, John. 2017. “NBC Rolls Back Promised ‘Must See TV’ Revival.” New York Times, May 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watts 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Watts 2007; Bruno and Sakmann 2006).

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

Two authors: (Bruno and Sakmann 2006)
Three authors: (Sackmann, Fulton, and Beebe 2014)
4 or more authors: (Hu 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