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

Hyun, I.: Fair payment or undue inducement?, Nature, 442, 629–630, 2006.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lukas, J. and Lukas, C.: Molecular biology. Shielding broken DNA for a quick fix, Science, 339, 652–653, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

van den Heuvel, M. G. L., de Graaff, M. P., and Dekker, C.: Molecular sorting by electrical steering of microtubules in kinesin-coated channels, Science, 312, 910–914, 2006.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Asfaw, B., Gilbert, W. H., Beyene, Y., Hart, W. K., Renne, P. R., WoldeGabriel, G., Vrba, E. S., and White, T. D.: Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia, Nature, 416, 317–320, 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiGrado, B. D. and Thorp, G. A.: The Aboveground Steel Storage Tank Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

Kabanov, Y., Rutkowski, M., and Zariphopoulou, T. (Eds.): Inspired by Finance: The Musiela Festschrift, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XXIII, 543 p. 33 illus., 14 illus. in color pp., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Sanders, J. C., Koll, R., and Dull, R. O.: CYP2D6: Where It All Began, in: A Case Approach to Perioperative Drug-Drug Interactions, edited by: Marcucci, C., Hutchens, M. P., Wittwer, E. D., Weingarten, T. N., Sprung, J., Nicholson, W. T., Lalwani, K., Metro, D. G., Dull, R. O., Swide, C. E., Seagull, F. J., Kirsch, J. R., and Sandson, N. B., Springer, New York, NY, 29–32, 2015.

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

FDA Approves Double Chin Shrinking Drug: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/fda-approves-double-chin-shrinking-drug/, 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: Mass Transit Grants: If Properly Implemented, FTA Initiatives Should Improve Oversight, 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

Boyle, L. L.: Relationship between managerial responsiveness, managerial approachability, and prosocial voice among acute-care registered nurses, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2014.

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

Antilla, S.: Fund Settlement, New York Times, 22nd September, B7, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hyun, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Hyun, 2006; Lukas and Lukas, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lukas and Lukas, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Asfaw et al., 2002)

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