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

Montgomery SL (2001) Newton in Japan. Nature 411:25

A journal article with 2 authors

Legler B, Moore G (2000) East German academics faced unfair hurdles. Nature 403:130

A journal article with 3 authors

Pack A, Shelley JMG, Palme H (2004) Chondrules with peculiar REE patterns: implications for solar nebular condensation at high C/O. Science 303:997–1000

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wang B, Yang W, Wen W, et al (2010) Gamma-secretase gene mutations in familial acne inversa. Science 330:1065

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bell S (2005) Lean Enterprise Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Dutoit AH, McCall R, Mistrík I, Paech B (2006) Rationale Management in Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Asadi S, Farhad Masoudi S, Shahriari M (2009) Simulation of Human Eye for Ophthalmic Brachytherapy Dosimetry Using MCNP-4C Code. In: Dössel O, Schlegel WC (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/3 Radiation Protection and Dosimetry, Biological Effects of Radiation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 9–12

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

Taub B (2016) Please Stop Electrocuting Your Brains At Home, Say Neuroscientists. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/please-stop-electrocuting-your-brains-at-home-say-neuroscientists/. 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 (2003) Intercity Passenger Rail: Issues for Consideration in Developing an Intercity Passenger Rail Policy. 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

Builes AJ (2015) Inferring Function: A Study of Three Prehistoric Structures in El Pital, Puerto López, Manabí, Ecuador. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Sisario B (2017) Turmoil Continues at Pandora Media As C.E.O. Joins Management Exodus. New York Times B3

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