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.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
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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
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Beaudet AL (2012) Neuroscience. Preventable forms of autism? Science 338:342–343
A journal article with 2 authors
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McAdams HH, Shapiro L (2003) A bacterial cell-cycle regulatory network operating in time and space. Science 301:1874–1877
A journal article with 3 authors
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Poss KD, Wilson LG, Keating MT (2002) Heart regeneration in zebrafish. Science 298:2188–2190
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Saint-Ruf C, Panigada M, Azogui O, et al (2000) Different initiation of pre-TCR and gammadeltaTCR signalling. Nature 406:524–527

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Padmanabhan TR, Bala Tripura Sundari B (2005) Design Through Verilog HDL. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ
An edited book
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Shrum W, Benson KR, Bijker WE, Brunnstein K (2007) Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society. Springer US, Boston, MA
A chapter in an edited book
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Erchul WP, Martens BK (2010) The School as a Setting for Consultation. In: Martens BK (ed) School Consultation: Conceptual and Empirical Bases of Practice. Springer, New York, NY, pp 63–80

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
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Luntz S (2015) Unenthusiastic Sex Doesn’t Make You Happy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/unenthusiastic-sex-doesnt-make-you-happy/. 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
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Government Accountability Office (1973) Protest Against Award for Computer System. 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
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Blandin NM (2008) Re-conceptualizing leadership for an era of complexity and uncertainty: A case study of leadership in a complex adaptive system. 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
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Cline EH (2014) Climate Change Doomed the Ancients. New York Times A21

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 titlePersonal and Ubiquitous Computing
AbbreviationPers. Ubiquitous Comput.
ISSN (print)1617-4909
ISSN (online)1617-4917
ScopeComputer Science Applications
Hardware and Architecture
Management Science and Operations Research

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