How to format your references using the Pervasive and Mobile Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pervasive and Mobile 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

B. Marty, Planetary science. The primordial porridge, Science 312 (2006) 706–707.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y. Long, J. Wang, Optically-controlled extinction ratio and Q-factor tunable silicon microring resonators based on optical forces, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5409.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

U. Brose, R.J. Williams, N.D. Martinez, Comment on “Foraging adaptation and the relationship between food-web complexity and stability,” Science 301 (2003) 918; author reply 918.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Jin, S.H. Rhim, J. Im, A.J. Freeman, Topological oxide insulator in cubic perovskite structure, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1651.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Sanchez, B. Carro, Digital Services in the 21st Century, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

C.E. Fisher, Shh and Gli Signalling and Development, Springer, New York, NY, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Han, S.-T. Hou, Methodology: Participatory Action Research via Industry-Academia Collaboration, in: S.-T. Hou (Ed.), Social Innovation and Business in Taiwan, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 29–36.

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 Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Peer Deeply into the Cross-Section of the Universe, IFLScience (2014).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Achievements, Cost, and Administration of the Ocean Sediment Coring Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.W. Schiffbauer, The pursuit of self-esteem: A help or a hindrance in thriving in the workplace?, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2013.

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

[1]

J. Wagner, Mets Lose Game but Not Any Ground, New York Times (2016) B12.

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	Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Abbreviation	Pervasive Mob. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1574-1192
Scope	Computer Science (miscellaneous) Applied Mathematics