How to format your references using the Soft Robotics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Soft Robotics (SORO). 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

Miyamoto K. Structural model of ubiquitin transfer onto an artificial RING finger as an E3 ligase. Sci Rep 2014;4:6574.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pinaud F, Dahan M. Biochemistry. Zooming into live cells. Science 2008;320(5873):187–188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Regenauer-Lieb K, Yuen DA, Branlund J. The initiation of subduction: criticality by addition of water? Science 2001;294(5542):578–580.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ludwig M-G, Vanek M, Guerini D, et al. Proton-sensing G-protein-coupled receptors. Nature 2003;425(6953):93–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raghavan V. Combustion Technology. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2016.

An edited book

Naselli-Flores L, Rossetti G, (eds). Fifty Years after the ‘“Homage to Santa Rosalia”’: Old and New Paradigms on Biodiversity in Aquatic Ecosystems. Developments in Hydrobiology 213. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Lu J, Xu T, Xue Q, et al. Nanoindentation, Nanoscratch and Nanoimpact Testing of Silicon-Based Materials with Nanostructured Surfaces. In: Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics: Active Materials, Nanoscale Materials, Composites, Glass and Fundamentals. (Bradt RC, Munz D, Sakai M, et al. eds) Springer US: Boston, MA; 2005; pp. 43–56.

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 Soft Robotics.

Blog post

Andrew E. Ancient New Genus Of Coelacanth Discovered. IFLScience; 2015. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Air Traffic Control: FAA Needs to Implement an Effective Testing Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Wetherington JM. The Relationship between Learning Organization Dimensions and Performance in the Nonprofit Sector. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ; 2010.

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

Poniewozik J. Rebelling Against a Charmed Life. New York Times 2017;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Soft Robotics
ISSN (print)	2169-5172
ISSN (online)	2169-5180
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