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

Birney, E.: The making of ENCODE: Lessons for big-data projects, Nature, 489, 49–51, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wood, S. F. and Mador, J. K.: Science and regulation. Uncapping conflict of interest?, Science, 340, 1172–1173, 2013.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shu, Y., Hasenstaub, A., and McCormick, D. A.: Turning on and off recurrent balanced cortical activity, Nature, 423, 288–293, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ingmundson, A., Delprato, A., Lambright, D. G., and Roy, C. R.: Legionella pneumophila proteins that regulate Rab1 membrane cycling, Nature, 450, 365–369, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ishiyama, J. T.: Comparative Politics, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

Evens, R. P. (Ed.): Drug and Biological Development: From Molecule to Product and Beyond, Springer US, Boston, MA, XI, 383 p pp., 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhong, Z., Zhang, Y., Yang, G., and Kong, Y.: GPU-Based Parallel Processing Technology in DPI, in: Web Technologies and Applications: APWeb 2015 Workshops, BSD, WDMA, and BDAT, Guangzhou, China, September 18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, edited by: Cai, R., Chen, K., Hong, L., Yang, X., Zhang, R., and Zou, L., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 44–53, 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

Hidden Scars On Brains Of Military Personnel Could Explain How Bomb Shockwaves Damage Cognition:

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: Air Traffic Control: FAA Plans to Replace Its Host Computer System Because Future Availability Cannot Be Assured, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mannar, N. K.: Hri-Tech Consultants, LLC, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2017.

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

Wagner, J.: After Striking Out, Nationals Swing a Trade, New York Times, 8th December, B12, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Birney, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Birney, 2012; Wood and Mador, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Wood and Mador, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ingmundson et al., 2007)

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