How to format your references using the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). 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

Glasby, G. P. (2000). ECONOMIC GEOLOGY: Lessons Learned from Deep-Sea Mining. Science (New York, N.Y.), 289(5479), 551–553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kang, D.-Y., & Moon, J. H. (2014). Lithographically defined three-dimensional pore-patterned carbon with nitrogen doping for high-performance ultrathin supercapacitor applications. Scientific Reports, 4, 5392.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nesić, D., Hsu, Y., & Stebbins, C. E. (2004). Assembly and function of a bacterial genotoxin. Nature, 429(6990), 429–433.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

McMillan, A. R., Labonté, L., Clark, A. S., Bell, B., Alibart, O., Martin, A., Wadsworth, W. J., Tanzilli, S., & Rarity, J. G. (2013). Two-photon interference between disparate sources for quantum networking. Scientific Reports, 3, 2032.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharma, Y. C. (2011). A Guide to the Economic Removal of Metals from Aqueous Solutions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Kari, J., Kutrib, M., & Malcher, A. (Eds.). (2013). Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems: 19th International Workshop, AUTOMATA 2013, Gießen, Germany, September 17-19, 2013. Proceedings (Vol. 8155). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Claverol, M., Garijo, D., Korman, M., Seara, C., & Silveira, R. I. (2015). Stabbing Segments with Rectilinear Objects. In A. Kosowski & I. Walukiewicz (Eds.), Fundamentals of Computation Theory: 20th International Symposium, FCT 2015, Gdańsk, Poland, August 17-19, 2015, Proceedings (pp. 53–64). Springer International Publishing.

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 the Association for Information Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, January 24). Mantis shrimp see things differently... literally. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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. (2013). Highway Trust Fund Obligations, Fiscal Years 2009 to 2011 (GAO-13-193R). 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

Paik, Y. (2012). Redefining multidisciplinary teams: An institutional approach [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Brantley, B. (2016, April 1). Witches of Salem Are Back; You May Be One. New York Times, C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Glasby, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Glasby, 2000; Kang & Moon, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Kang & Moon, 2014)
Three authors: (Nesić et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (McMillan et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0002-8231
ISSN (online)	2330-1643
Scope	General Engineering