How to format your references using the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 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

Ferguson N (2007) Capturing human behaviour. Nature 446:733

A journal article with 2 authors

Hill RA, Barton RA (2005) Psychology: red enhances human performance in contests. Nature 435:293

A journal article with 3 authors

Harris GC, Wimmer M, Aston-Jones G (2005) A role for lateral hypothalamic orexin neurons in reward seeking. Nature 437:556–559

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Westerling AL, Hidalgo HG, Cayan DR, Swetnam TW (2006) Warming and earlier spring increase western U.S. forest wildfire activity. Science 313:940–943

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Möller G (2013) Geotechnik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Das K (2014) Globalization and Standards: Issues and Challenges in Indian Business. Springer India, New Delhi

A chapter in an edited book

Mardiris V, Chatzis V (2014) Image Processing Algorithms Implementation Using Quantum Cellular Automata. In: Rosin P, Adamatzky A, Sun X (eds) Cellular Automata in Image Processing and Geometry. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 65–84

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 Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Researchers Unravel The Mysteries Of The Basque People. In: IFLScience. 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 (2015) Independent Auditor’s Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2015 Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund. 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

Baker D (2016) Does team patient care mean better patient outcomes? Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Clarey C (2016) Open Champion Shows Vulnerability Off the Court, Not on It. New York Times B10

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	Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Abbreviation	Pers. Ubiquitous Comput.
ISSN (print)	1617-4909
ISSN (online)	1617-4917
Scope	Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture Management Science and Operations Research