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

Zastrow, M. (2015). Data visualization: science on the map. Nature, 519(7541), 119–120.

A journal article with 2 authors

Peng, C., & Gao, F. (2014). Protein localization analysis of essential genes in prokaryotes. Scientific reports, 4, 6001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schliekelman, P., Garner, C., & Slatkin, M. (2001). Natural selection and resistance to HIV. Nature, 411(6837), 545–546.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Yin, Z., Zhang, Y., Chen, K., Li, J., Li, W., Tang, P., … Ma, D. (2014). Monodispersed bimetallic PdAg nanoparticles with twinned structures: formation and enhancement for the methanol oxidation. Scientific reports, 4, 4288.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

D’Andrea, A., & Sjogren, J. (2013). Veterinary Technician’s Large Animal Daily Reference Guide. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Pennisi, A. (2016). Darwinian Biolinguistics: Theory and History of a Naturalistic Philosophy of Language and Pragmatics. (A. Falzone, Ed.) (Vol. 12). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Gargaud, M., Martin, H., López-García, P., Montmerle, T., & Pascal, R. (2012). Intermezzo: The Gestation of Life and its First Steps. In H. Martin, P. López-García, T. Montmerle, & R. Pascal (Eds.), Young Sun, Early Earth and the Origins of Life: Lessons for Astrobiology (pp. 93–154). Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Andrew, E. (2015, August 12). “Mother” Robot Builds Evolving Babies. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/robot-evolves/

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. (1971). Administration of Certain Allowances and Differentials Paid to Civilian Employees Located Overseas (No. 093007). 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

Meyertholen, A. N. (2014). Blurring the lines: The invention of abstract in German literature since 1800 (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Grundfest, J. A., Lemley, M. A., & Triantis, G. G. (2012, October 24). Getting More Bang for the Fed’s Buck. New York Times, p. A25.

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