How to format your references using the Technovation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Technovation. 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	Download the output style file
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

Herrling, P., 2006. Experiments in social responsibility. Nature 439, 267–268.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kelemen, P.B., Hirth, G., 2007. A periodic shear-heating mechanism for intermediate-depth earthquakes in the mantle. Nature 446, 787–790.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stratton, M.R., Campbell, P.J., Futreal, P.A., 2009. The cancer genome. Nature 458, 719–724.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mold, J.E., Michaëlsson, J., Burt, T.D., Muench, M.O., Beckerman, K.P., Busch, M.P., Lee, T.-H., Nixon, D.F., McCune, J.M., 2008. Maternal alloantigens promote the development of tolerogenic fetal regulatory T cells in utero. Science 322, 1562–1565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp, M., 2005. Information Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

He, S., 2014. Energy-Efficient Area Coverage for Intruder Detection in Sensor Networks, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Aleksic, V., Degtyarev, A., 2006. On Arbitrary Selection Strategies for Basic Superposition, in: Fisher, M., Hoek, W. van der, Konev, B., Lisitsa, A. (Eds.), Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 10th European Conference, JELIA 2006 Liverpool, UK, September 13-15, 2006 Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 20–28.

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 Technovation.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. This Plane Will Take You Anywhere In The World In 4 Hours [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1983. Vocational Education and the Robotics Revolution (No. 121707). 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

Templeton, T.H., 2017. The Impact of Emergent Information and Communication Technology on Peacebuilding (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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. Logic Streams Way To Top of Album Chart. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Herrling, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Herrling, 2006; Kelemen and Hirth, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Kelemen and Hirth, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Mold et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Technovation
Abbreviation	Technovation
ISSN (print)	0166-4972
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation General Engineering