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

Hengartner MO (2000) The biochemistry of apoptosis. Nature 407:770–776

A journal article with 2 authors

Goo L, Pierson TC (2015) Dengue virus: Bumps in the road to therapeutic antibodies. Nature 524:295–296

A journal article with 3 authors

Dalton CA, Langmuir CH, Gale A (2014) Geophysical and geochemical evidence for deep temperature variations beneath mid-ocean ridges. Science 344:80–83

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang Y, Wang P-P, Zhang Z-C, et al (2013) Nanowire membrane-based nanothermite: towards processable and tunable interfacial diffusion for solid state reactions. Sci Rep 3:1694

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Montgomery GE, Schuch HC (2007) GIS Data Conversion Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pezzulo G, Butz MV, Castelfranchi C, Falcone R (2008) The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Altalag A, Road J, Wilcox P (2009) Bronchial Challenge Testing. In: Road J, Altalag A (eds) Pulmonary Function Tests in Clinical Practice. Springer, London, pp 71–79

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

Andrew E (2014) Some Of The Most Awful Parasites In The World. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/some-most-awful-parasites-world/. 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 (2007) Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellites: Restructuring Is Under Way, but Technical Challenges and Risks Remain. 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

Eller LS (2012) Social media as avenue for personal learning for educators: Personal learning networks encourage application of knowledge and skills. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

Grynbaum MM (2017) Is ‘As the [Trump] World Turns’ at ‘The Edge of Night’? 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