How to format your references using the Sensing and Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sensing and Imaging. 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

Strauss, S. H. (2003). Genetic technologies. Genomics, genetic engineering, and domestication of crops. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5616), 61–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vukusic, P., & Sambles, J. R. (2003). Photonic structures in biology. Nature, 424(6950), 852–855.

A journal article with 3 authors

Murtagh, G. J., Dyer, P. S., & Crittenden, P. D. (2000). Sex and the single lichen. Nature, 404(6778), 564.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Nardi, F., Spinsanti, G., Boore, J. L., Carapelli, A., Dallai, R., & Frati, F. (2003). Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic? Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5614), 1887–1889.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maillard, P. (2013). Competitive Quality Strategies. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Andershed, A.-K. (Ed.). (2013). Girls at Risk: Swedish Longitudinal Research on Adjustment. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Brändas, E. J. (2009). The Equivalence Principle from a Quantum Mechanical Perspective. In P. Piecuch, J. Maruani, G. Delgado-Barrio, & S. Wilson (Eds.), Advances in the Theory of Atomic and Molecular Systems: Conceptual and Computational Advances in Quantum Chemistry (pp. 73–92). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Sensing and Imaging.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, May 1). Scientists Develop Enzyme That Can Convert Any Blood Into Universal Donor Type. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1973). Request for Reformation of Contract (No. B-178078). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gustus, C. H. (2017). E-Mentoring an Educator in a State School for the Deaf: An Action Research Study (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Corkery, M., & de la MERCED, M. J. (2017, June 8). Nordstrom Family to Consider Ways of Taking Chain Private. New York Times, p. B1.

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	Sensing and Imaging
Abbreviation	Sens. Imaging
ISSN (print)	1557-2064
ISSN (online)	1557-2072
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation

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