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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Horby P (2013) H7N9 is a virus worth worrying about. Nature 496:399

A journal article with 2 authors

Nielsen S, Zenkin N (2014) Transcription. Response to Comment on “Mechanism of eukaryotic RNA polymerase III transcription termination.” Science 345:524

A journal article with 3 authors

Saitta EKH, Legron-Rodriguez T, Bowdon MA (2013) IBI* series winner. An inquiry into the water around us. Science 341:971–972

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Takagi J, Itabashi T, Suzuki K, Ishiwata S (2013) Chromosome position at the spindle equator is regulated by chromokinesin and a bipolar microtubule array. Sci Rep 3:2808

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grist F (2010) Basic Guide to Orthodontic Dental Nursing. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Björn LO (2008) Photobiology: The Science of Life and Light, Second Edition. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Mulloy PA (2014) China Leveraged the West to Grow Its Economy and Its Comprehensive National Power. In: Anderson DM (ed) Leveraging: A Political, Economic and Societal Framework. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 67–79

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

Andrew D (2016) Alzheimer’s Breakthrough? Have We Nearly Cured Dementia? Not Just Yet…. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/alzheimers-breakthrough-have-we-nearly-cured-dementia-not-just-yet/. 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 (1968) Opportunity For Savings In Space Programs By Reevaluating Needs Before Buying Facilities. 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

Ma D (2010) Acyclic congeners of Cucurbit[n]uril and a related mechanistic study on the Cucurbit[n]uril forming reaction. 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

Saslow L (2007) Nassau Taking Steps Against Feral Cats. New York Times LI2

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