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

Tannock, I.F. Cancer: Resistance through Repopulation. Nature 2015, 517, 152–153.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kraehenbuhl, J.-P.; Corbett, M. Immunology. Keeping the Gut Microflora at Bay. Science 2004, 303, 1624–1625.

A journal article with 3 authors

Durack, P.J.; Wijffels, S.E.; Matear, R.J. Ocean Salinities Reveal Strong Global Water Cycle Intensification during 1950 to 2000. Science 2012, 336, 455–458.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Herbig, U.; Ferreira, M.; Condel, L.; Carey, D.; Sedivy, J.M. Cellular Senescence in Aging Primates. Science 2006, 311, 1257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Torres-Moreno, J.-M. Automatic Text Summarization; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2014; ISBN 9781119004752.

An edited book

Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business: 5th International Conference, TrustBus 2008 Turin, Italy, September 4-5, 2008 Proceedings; Furnell, S., Katsikas, S.K., Lioy, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 5185; ISBN 9783540857341.

A chapter in an edited book

Fusté-Vilella, D.; Pulido, J.-M.; García-Vidal, J.; Gheorghiu, S. TrafficNet: A L2 Network Architecture for Road-to-Vehicle Communication. In Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet: Third International Workshop of the EURO-NGI Network of Excellence, Sitges, Spain, June 6-9, 2006, Revised Selected Papers; García-Vidal, J., Cerdà-Alabern, L., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; pp. 43–61 ISBN 9783540709688.

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

Andrews, R. Scientists Have Breached The Blood-Brain Barrier For The First Time And Treated A Brain Tumor Using An “Ultrasonic Screwdriver” (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 Space Transportation: NASA Has No Firm Need for Increasingly Costly Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1990;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Milliken, D.E. Blood Pressure Measurement in the Primary Care Provider Setting: A Project Evaluating the Blood Pressure Technique of Nursing Staff. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Kenigsberg, B. Film Series. New York Times 2017, C24.

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