How to format your references using the Service Oriented Computing and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA). 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

Koen D (2004) Nuts and bolts: career journals. Nature 427:180

A journal article with 2 authors

Landisman CE, Connors BW (2005) Long-term modulation of electrical synapses in the mammalian thalamus. Science 310:1809–1813

A journal article with 3 authors

Akhtar A, Zink D, Becker PB (2000) Chromodomains are protein-RNA interaction modules. Nature 407:405–409

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Murchison EP, Tovar C, Hsu A, et al (2010) The Tasmanian devil transcriptome reveals Schwann cell origins of a clonally transmissible cancer. Science 327:84–87

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wu Z (2007) Software VNA and Microwave Network Design and Characterisation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cortés P, Maeso-González E, Escudero-Santana A (2015) Enhancing Synergies in a Collaborative Environment. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Alitappeh RJ, Pimenta LCA (2016) Distributed Safe Deployment of Networked Robots. In: Chong N-Y, Cho Y-J (eds) Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: The 12th International Symposium. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp 65–77

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 Service Oriented Computing and Applications.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2015) Thank Grandmothers For Romance. In: IFLScience. 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 (1980) Requirements for Recurring Reports to the Congress. 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

Grasis JA (2008) Controlling T lymphocyte activation with a molecular rheostat. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Shear MD (2017) Questions and Answers About the Ruling. New York Times A12

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	Service Oriented Computing and Applications
Abbreviation	Serv. Oriented Comput. Appl.
ISSN (print)	1863-2386
ISSN (online)	1863-2394
Scope	Management Information Systems Hardware and Architecture Information Systems Software