How to format your references using the Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems citation style

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

Schnitzer, M. J.: Biological computation: amazing algorithms, Nature, 416, 683, 2002.

A journal article with 2 authors

Papasaikas, P. and Valcárcel, J.: Evolution. Splicing in 4D, Science, 338, 1547–1548, 2012.

A journal article with 3 authors

McQuibban, G. A., Saurya, S., and Freeman, M.: Mitochondrial membrane remodelling regulated by a conserved rhomboid protease, Nature, 423, 537–541, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Zhang, Y., Stokes, N., Jia, B., Fan, S., and Gu, M.: Towards ultra-thin plasmonic silicon wafer solar cells with minimized efficiency loss, Sci. Rep., 4, 4939, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gordon, A. and Hernandez, S.: The Official (ISC) 2® Guide to the SSCP 2® CBK 2®, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 2016.

An edited book

Bellon, J. R., Wong, J. S., MacDonald, S. M., and Ho, A. Y. (Eds.): Radiation Therapy Techniques and Treatment Planning for Breast Cancer, Springer International Publishing, Cham, VIII, 158 p. 78 illus., 76 illus. in color pp., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Stoops, G., Gérard, M., and Arnalds, O.: A Micromorphological Study of Andosol Genesis in Iceland, in: New Trends in Soil Micromorphology, edited by: Kapur, S., Mermut, A., and Stoops, G., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 67–89, 2008.

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 Sensors and Sensor Systems.

Blog post

Best Measurement Yet of the Universe’s Expansion: https://www.iflscience.com/space/best-measurement-yet-universe’s-expansion/, last access: 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: Commercial Space Transportation: Industry Trends and Key Issues Affecting Federal Oversight and International Competitiveness, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pei, X.: Acid modification of psyllium, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2008.

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

Billard, M.: Old Is Good, Cheaper Is Better, New York Times, 15th April, E5, 2010.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schnitzer, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Papasaikas and Valcárcel, 2012; Schnitzer, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Papasaikas and Valcárcel, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems
Abbreviation	J. Sens. Sens. Syst.
ISSN (print)	2194-8771
ISSN (online)	2194-878X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation