How to format your references using the Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. 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

Mocumbi, P. Plague of My People. Nature 2004, 430, 925.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bernards, R.; Weinberg, R.A. A Progression Puzzle. Nature 2002, 418, 823.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biteau, B.; Labarre, J.; Toledano, M.B. ATP-Dependent Reduction of Cysteine-Sulphinic Acid by S. Cerevisiae Sulphiredoxin. Nature 2003, 425, 980–984.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mali, S.S.; Betty, C.A.; Bhosale, P.N.; Patil, P.S.; Hong, C.K. From Nanocorals to Nanorods to Nanoflowers Nanoarchitecture for Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells at Relatively Low Film Thickness: All Hydrothermal Process. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5451.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmann, H.; Steinle, A. Precast Concrete Structures; Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG: Berlin, Germany, 2012; ISBN 9783433600962.

An edited book

Multiwavelength Approach to Unidentified Gamma-Ray Sources: A Second Workshop on the Nature of the High-Energy Unidentified Sources; Cheng, K.S., Romero, G.E., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2005; ISBN 9781402032141.

A chapter in an edited book

Infante, J.C.; Dzakovic, A. The Liver. In Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound in Pediatrics and Pediatric Surgery; Scholz, S., Jarboe, M.D., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 49–61 ISBN 9783319216980.

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 Sensor and Actuator Networks.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Sexual Satisfaction Correlates With Intelligence Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/sexual-satisfaction-correlates-intelligence-elderly/ (accessed on 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

Government Accountability Office Shuttle Rocket Motor Program: NASA Should Delay Awarding Some Construction Contracts; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kennedy-Reid, S.K. Exploring the Habitus: A Phenomenological Study of Transformative Learning Processes. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2012.

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, M. THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Perot Carries His Message To Arkansas. New York Times 1992, 120.

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 Sensor and Actuator Networks
Abbreviation	J. Sens. Actuator Netw.
ISSN (online)	2224-2708
Scope