How to format your references using the Universal Access in the Information Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Universal Access in the Information Society. 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

Schlessinger, J.: Common and distinct elements in cellular signaling via EGF and FGF receptors. Science. 306, 1506–1507 (2004)

A journal article with 2 authors

Angelo, G., Van Gilst, M.R.: Starvation protects germline stem cells and extends reproductive longevity in C. elegans. Science. 326, 954–958 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Tran, J., Brenner, T.J., DiNardo, S.: Somatic control over the germline stem cell lineage during Drosophila spermatogenesis. Nature. 407, 754–757 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

O’Neill, J.S., Maywood, E.S., Chesham, J.E., Takahashi, J.S., Hastings, M.H.: cAMP-dependent signaling as a core component of the mammalian circadian pacemaker. Science. 320, 949–953 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety: Guidelines for Design Solutions for Process Equipment Failures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (1998)

An edited book

Ramírez, A.F., Ben Arous, G., Ferrari, P.A., Newman, C.M., Sidoravicius, V., Vares, M.E. eds: Topics in Percolative and Disordered Systems. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Bylina, J., Bylina, B., Zoła, A., Skaraczyński, T.: A Markovian Model of a Call Center with Time Varying Arrival Rate and Skill Based Routing. In: Kwiecień, A., Gaj, P., and Stera, P. (eds.) Computer Networks: 16th Conference, CN 2009, Wisła, Poland, June 16-20, 2009. Proceedings. pp. 26–33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

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 Universal Access in the Information Society.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Stress Can Alter Your Genome

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: The Challenge of Data Sharing: Results of a GAO-Sponsored Symposium on Benefit and Loan Programs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2000)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kutash, M.: The Relationship Between Nurses’ Emotional Intelligence and Patient Outcomes, (2015)

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.: Striking Throwback to Kitchen-Sink Sitcoms, (2017)

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	Universal Access in the Information Society
ISSN (print)	1615-5289
ISSN (online)	1615-5297
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Human-Computer Interaction Information Systems Software