How to format your references using the CSI Transactions on ICT citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for CSI Transactions on ICT (CSIT). 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

Le Hur K (2015) Condensed-matter physics: Quantum dots and the Kondo effect. Nature 526:203–204

A journal article with 2 authors

Alcorn JF, Kolls JK (2015) Physiology. Killer fat. Science 347:26–27

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghosh S, Sood AK, Kumar N (2003) Carbon nanotube flow sensors. Science 299:1042–1044

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lu J, Liu H, Zheng M, et al (2014) Laser modified ZnO/CdSSe core-shell nanowire arrays for Micro-Steganography and improved photoconduction. Sci Rep 4:6350

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stafford F (2012) Reading Romantic Poetry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ashkenazi J, Eremin MV, Cohn JL, et al (2005) New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on New Challenges in Superconductivity: Experimental Advances and Emerging Theories Miami, Florida, U.S.A. 11–14 January 2004. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Busiol D, Lee TY (2015) Prevention of Cyberbullying: A Conceptual Review. In: Lee TY, Shek DTL, Sun RCF (eds) Student Well-Being in Chinese Adolescents in Hong Kong: Theory, Intervention and Research. Springer, Singapore, pp 59–69

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 CSI Transactions on ICT.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2014) Watch Baby Spiders “Explode” From Mother During Fight. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spider-fight-unexpected-surprise/. 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 (1991) FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. 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

Walsh MA (2010) Passage. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Schmidt MS (2017) Trump Denies Weighing Whether to Fire Mueller. New York Times A12

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	CSI Transactions on ICT
ISSN (print)	2277-9078
ISSN (online)	2277-9086
Scope