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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Systems Architecture. 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

[1]

J.A. Secord, Portraits of science. Quick and magical shaper of science, Science. 297 (2002) 1648–1649.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.N. Pitt, A.R. Ferré-D’Amaré, Rapid construction of empirical RNA fitness landscapes, Science. 330 (2010) 376–379.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Meylan, J. Tschopp, M. Karin, Intracellular pattern recognition receptors in the host response, Nature. 442 (2006) 39–44.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Ghosh, R. Parthasarathy, T.F. Rosenbaum, G. Aeppli, Coherent spin oscillations in a disordered magnet, Science. 296 (2002) 2195–2198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. DiBattista, Novel Characters, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

G.S. Chirikjian, H. Choset, M. Morales, T. Murphey, eds., Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VIII: Selected Contributions of the Eight International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Harpe, H. Hegt, A. van Roermund, Design of a Sub-Binary Variable-Radix DAC, in: H. Hegt, P. Harpe (Eds.), Smart AD and DA Conversion, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 41–55.

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 Systems Architecture.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festivals Are Becoming Threatened By Beetles, IFLScience. (2016).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Mass Transit Grants: Development Time Frames for Selected UMTA Projects, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.R. Dickens, The experience of recovery from alcohol/drugs (AOD), Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2011.

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

[1]

J. Wagner, Twins Deal Sends Colon To Minors, New York Times. (2017) D3.

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 Systems Architecture
Abbreviation	J. Syst. Arch.
ISSN (print)	1383-7621
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Software