How to format your references using the Sensing and Imaging: An International Journal citation style

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

Hatten, M. E. (2002). New directions in neuronal migration. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5587), 1660–1663.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pyle, J., & Harris, N. (2013). Joe Farman (1930-2013). Nature, 498(7455), 435.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biastoch, A., Böning, C. W., & Lutjeharms, J. R. E. (2008). Agulhas leakage dynamics affects decadal variability in Atlantic overturning circulation. Nature, 456(7221), 489–492.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ule, J., Stefani, G., Mele, A., Ruggiu, M., Wang, X., Taneri, B., … Darnell, R. B. (2006). An RNA map predicting Nova-dependent splicing regulation. Nature, 444(7119), 580–586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grant, G. (2016). The Water Sensitive City. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Bahr, A., & Seidel, M. (Eds.). (2016). Ernest Sosa: Targeting His Philosophy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Quan, W., Gong, X., Fang, J., & Li, J. (2015). Star Map Processing Algorithm of Star Sensor and Autonomous Celestial Navigation. In J. Li, X. Gong, & J. Fang (Eds.), INS/CNS/GNSS Integrated Navigation Technology (pp. 145–183). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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: An International Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, May 26). Nasty Star Has Cosmic Temper Tantrum. 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. (2002). Information Technology: DOD Needs to Improve Process for Ensuring Interoperability of Telecommunications Switches (No. GAO-02-681). 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

Foster, H. C. (2017). The effect of droplet size and sprayer type on physical drift (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Lyman, R., & Walsh, M. W. (2014, January 15). Task Force Report Urges Municipalities to Stop Hiding Fiscal Troubles. New York Times, p. A14.

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: An International Journal
Abbreviation	Sens. Imaging
ISSN (print)	1557-2064
ISSN (online)	1557-2072
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation