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]

D. Rochmyaningsih, Indigenous peoples must benefit from science, Nature 526 (2015) 477.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Pujolle-Robic, L. Noirez, Observation of shear-induced nematic-isotropic transition in side-chain liquid crystal polymers, Nature 409 (2001) 167–171.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.J. Heywood, A.C. Naveira Garabato, D.P. Stevens, High mixing rates in the abyssal Southern Ocean, Nature 415 (2002) 1011–1014.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.E. Schaak, T. Klimczuk, M.L. Foo, R.J. Cava, Superconductivity phase diagram of Na(x)CoO2*1.3H2O, Nature 424 (2003) 527–529.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Celant, M. Broniatowski, Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 1, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Chignell, J.R. Cordy, R. Kealey, J. Ng, Y. Yesha, eds., The Personal Web: A Research Agenda, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Neupane, R. Steinwandt, Communication-Efficient 2-Round Group Key Establishment from Pairings, in: A. Kiayias (Ed.), Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2011: The Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2011, San Francisco, CA, USA, February 14-18, 2011. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 65–76.

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]

E. Andrew, Trees Trap Environmental Particulate Matter, IFLScience (2013). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/trees-trap-environmental-particulate-matter/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Transportation Infrastructure: Better Tools Needed for Making Decisions on Using ISTEA Funds Flexibly, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.M. Cox, Functional Gain and Change Mechanisms in Post-Production Complex Systems, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2017.

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]

B. Mueller, J.C. McKINLEY Jr, Connecticut Death Penalty Law Is Unconstitutional, Top State Court Says, New York Times (2015) A20.

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