How to format your references using the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development. 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

Eysel UT (2003) Neuroscience. Illusions and perceived images in the primate brain. Science 302:789–791

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowe T, Frank LR (2011) The disappearing third dimension. Science 331:712–714

A journal article with 3 authors

Luo ZX, Cifelli RL, Kielan-Jaworowska Z (2001) Dual origin of tribosphenic mammals. Nature 409:53–57

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Krimpenfort P, Ijpenberg A, Song J-Y, et al (2007) p15Ink4b is a critical tumour suppressor in the absence of p16Ink4a. Nature 448:943–946

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hitz B, Ewing JJ, Hecht J (2005) Introduction to Laser Technology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Dunworth K, Zhang G (eds) (2014) Critical Perspectives on Language Education: Australia and the Asia Pacific. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Murthy DNP, Jack N (2014) EWs/MSCs: An Overview. In: Jack N (ed) Extended Warranties, Maintenance Service and Lease Contracts: Modeling and Analysis for Decision-Making. Springer, London, pp 91–125

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 Software Engineering Research and Development.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Watch China’s lunar rover landing! In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-china’s-lunar-rover-landing/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1977) The Federal Role in Merchant Marine Officer Education. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wilensky SE (2010) 340B prime vendor program: Health center decision making and barriers to participation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Feeney K (2007) In a Word, Fabulous. New York Times NJ6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Eysel 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Eysel 2003; Rowe and Frank 2011).

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

Two authors: (Rowe and Frank 2011)
Three or more authors: (Krimpenfort et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development
Abbreviation	J. Softw. Eng. Res. Dev.
ISSN (online)	2195-1721
Scope