How to format your references using the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems. 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

Park, R. W. (2014). Anthropology. Stories of Arctic colonization. Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6200), 1004–1005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellerbroek, B., & Rigaut, F. (2000). Optics adapt to the whole sky. Nature, 403(6765), 25–26.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sagy, A., Reches, Z., & Fineberg, J. (2002). Dynamic fracture by large extraterrestrial impacts as the origin of shatter cones. Nature, 418(6895), 310–313.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Zengin, G., Johansson, G., Johansson, P., Antosiewicz, T. J., Käll, M., & Shegai, T. (2013). Approaching the strong coupling limit in single plasmonic nanorods interacting with J-aggregates. Scientific reports, 3, 3074.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schorn, C., & Taylor, B. (2004). NMR Spectroscopy: Data Acquisition. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ortiz, G., & Tran, C. (Eds.). (2015). Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing: Workshops of ESOCC 2014, Manchester, UK, September 2-4, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 508). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Johansson, M., Bundy, A., & Dixon, L. (2006). Best-First Rippling. In O. Stock & M. Schaerf (Eds.), Reasoning, Action and Interaction in AI Theories and Systems: Essays Dedicated to Luigia Carlucci Aiello (pp. 83–100). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016, July 6). CERN Detects Exotic Particles Amid Rumors Of New Physics. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from

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. (1998). Public-Private Competitions: Access to Records Is Inhibiting Work on Congressional Mandates (No. T-NSIAD-98-101). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Milillo, M. S. (2009). Analysis of emotional intelligence among management leaders and non-management leaders in software development (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Billard, M. (2010, September 2). Step Down to Step Up. New York Times, p. E5.

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	EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
ISSN (online)	1687-3963
Scope	General Computer Science Control and Systems Engineering