How to format your references using the Journal of Signal Processing Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Signal Processing 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	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

Parisi, G. (2005). Brownian motion. Nature, 433(7023), 221.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cui, Y., & Lieber, C. M. (2001). Functional nanoscale electronic devices assembled using silicon nanowire building blocks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5505), 851–853.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jönsson, T. J., Johnson, L. C., & Lowther, W. T. (2008). Structure of the sulphiredoxin-peroxiredoxin complex reveals an essential repair embrace. Nature, 451(7174), 98–101.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Petukhova, L., Duvic, M., Hordinsky, M., Norris, D., Price, V., Shimomura, Y., … Christiano, A. M. (2010). Genome-wide association study in alopecia areata implicates both innate and adaptive immunity. Nature, 466(7302), 113–117.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robyns, B., François, B., Delille, G., & Saudemont, C. (2015). Energy Storage in Electric Power Grids. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Erstad, O., Kumpulainen, K., Mäkitalo, Å., Schrøder, K. C., Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, P., & Jóhannsdóttir, T. (Eds.). (2016). Learning across Contexts in the Knowledge Society. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Majumder, M., & Ghosh, S. (2013). Nature-Based Algorithms. In S. Ghosh (Ed.), Decision Making Algorithms for Hydro-Power Plant Location (pp. 27–34). Singapore: Springer.

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 Signal Processing Systems.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017, February 3). Boxer Crabs Make Their Anemone “Gloves’” Reproduce Asexually. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1998). Federal Research: Challenges to Implementing the Advanced Technology Program (No. RCED/OCE-98-83R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Xiao, S. (2012). Effects of adsorbates on the electronic properties of graphene (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2009, February 2). Russian Leaders Attend Installation of Orthodox Patriarch. New York Times, p. A8.

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 Signal Processing Systems
Abbreviation	J. Signal Process. Syst.
ISSN (print)	1939-8018
ISSN (online)	1939-8115
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Signal Processing Control and Systems Engineering Modelling and Simulation Theoretical Computer Science