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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Kleiner K (2007) The shipping forecast. Nature 449:272–273

A journal article with 2 authors

Jensen K, Murray F (2005) Intellectual property. Enhanced: intellectual property landscape of the human genome. Science 310:239–240

A journal article with 3 authors

Powell KI, Chase JM, Knight TM (2013) Invasive plants have scale-dependent effects on diversity by altering species-area relationships. Science 339:316–318

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Vik JO, Stenseth NC, Tavecchia G, et al (2004) Ecology: living in synchrony on Greenland coasts? Nature 427:697–8; discussion 698

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rittereiser CM, Kochard LE (2010) Top Hedge Fund Investors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nedjah N, Santos Coelho L dos, Macedo Mourelle L de (2010) Multi-Objective Swarm Intelligent Systems: Theory & Experiences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Ju Y (2011) Evaluation of Electrical Properties. In: Saka M (ed) Metallic Micro and Nano Materials: Fabrication with Atomic Diffusion. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 143–172

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

Hale T (2015) The Internet Has Found A Buddha Statue On Mars. 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 (1996) Telecommunications: Costs Reported by Federal Organizations for Fiscal Year 1995. 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

Munchel BF (2015) Exploratory Study of Counseling Professionals’ Attitudes Toward Distance Clinical Supervision. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Cardwell D, Schwartz J (2017) Exxon’s Accounting of Its Emissions Costs ‘May Be a Sham,’ New York State Says. New York Times B6

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