How to format your references using the Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing. 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

Scodeggio, M. (2001). Astronomy. Toward resolving the mystery of galaxy formation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294(5542), 537–538.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mas-Ballesté, R., & Que, L., Jr. (2006). Chemistry. Targeting specific C-H bonds for oxidation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5782), 1885–1886.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lambers, J. H. R., Clark, J. S., & Beckage, B. (2002). Density-dependent mortality and the latitudinal gradient in species diversity. Nature, 417(6890), 732–735.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Schreiber, K., Crawford, J. D., Fetter, M., & Tweed, D. (2001). The motor side of depth vision. Nature, 410(6830), 819–822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martin, J. E. (2013). Physics for Radiation Protection. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Oka, Y. (2010). Super Light Water Reactors and Super Fast Reactors: Supercritical-Pressure Light Water Cooled Reactors. (S. Koshizuka, Y. Ishiwatari, & A. Yamaji, Eds.). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Hasselbalch, J., Costa, N., & Blecken, A. (2015). Investigating the Barriers to Sustainable Procurement in the United Nations. In M. Klumpp, S. de Leeuw, A. Regattieri, & R. de Souza (Eds.), Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability (pp. 67–86). Cham: 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 Indian Society of Remote Sensing.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, November 14). Global Carbon Emissions Plateau For The Third Year In A Row. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-carbon-emissions-plateau-for-the-third-year-in-a-row/. Accessed 30 October 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. (1993). Airport Improvement Program: Allocation of Funds From 1982 to 1992 (No. RCED-94-14FS). 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

Diorio, C. A. (2010). The silent scream of Medusa: Restoring, or re-storying, her voice (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Stewart, J. B. (2017, April 27). Tax Cuts for Everybody, and Responsibility for Nobody. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scodeggio 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Mas-Ballesté and Que 2006; Scodeggio 2001).

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

Two authors: (Mas-Ballesté and Que 2006)
Three or more authors: (Schreiber et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing
Abbreviation	J. Ind. Soc. Remote Sens.
ISSN (print)	0255-660X
ISSN (online)	0974-3006
Scope	Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Geography, Planning and Development