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. 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

Crow JM. Insomnia: Chasing the Dream. Nature. 2013;497(7450):S16-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tewksbury JJ, Nabhan GP. Seed Dispersal. Directed Deterrence by Capsaicin in Chilies. Nature. 2001;412(6845):403–404.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mayor M, Lovis C, Santos NC. Doppler Spectroscopy as a Path to the Detection of Earth-like Planets. Nature. 2014;513(7518):328–335.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Komeili A, Li Z, Newman DK, Jensen GJ. Magnetosomes Are Cell Membrane Invaginations Organized by the Actin-like Protein MamK. Science. 2006;311(5758):242–245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bajorski P. Statistics for Imaging, Optics, and Photonics: Bajorski/Statistics for Imaging; Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Coping with Katrina, Rita, and Other Storms; Cherry, K. E., Ed.; Springer US: New York, NY, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Dell’Antonio G, Michelangeli A. Dynamics on a Graph as the Limit of the Dynamics on a “Fat Graph.” In Mathematical Technology of Networks: Bielefeld, December 2013; Mugnolo, D., Ed.; Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 49–64.

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

Carpineti A. Titan’s Seas Are Made Of Pure Methane https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-new-depth-look-seas-titan/ (accessed Oct 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. Advance Sheets: Volume 73, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States; OGC-94-28; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Anderson SL. Ninth Grade Transition: Best Practices for a Successful Transition to High School. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2008.

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

Kolomatsky M. Career Over, Where to Move? New York Times, 2017, RE2.

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
Scope