How to format your references using the Information Security Technical Report citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Information Security Technical Report. 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

Standen N. Tuning channels for blood pressure. Nature. 2000 Oct 19;407(6806):845, 847–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yamamoto J, Tanaka H. Transparent nematic phase in a liquid-crystal-based microemulsion. Nature. 2001 Jan 18;409(6818):321–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turk MJ, Abel T, O’Shea B. The formation of Population III binaries from cosmological initial conditions. Science. 2009 Jul 31;325(5940):601–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liao T, Sun Z, Sun C, Dou SX, Searles DJ. Electronic coupling and catalytic effect on H2 evolution of MoS2/graphene nanocatalyst. Sci Rep. 2014 Sep 1;4:6256.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Summers N. Managing Social Service Staff for Excellence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Fels E, Kremer JF, Kronenberg K, editors. Power in the 21st Century: International Security and International Political Economy in a Changing World. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. (Global Power Shift, Comparative Analysis and Perspectives).

A chapter in an edited book

Harik V. New Trends in Nanoscale Mechanics of Nanostructures, Graphene Sheets and Nanocomposites. In: Harik V, editor. Trends in Nanoscale Mechanics: Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene, Nanocomposites and Molecular Dynamics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 141–50.

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 Information Security Technical Report.

Blog post

Taub B. There’s A Gene That Reverses Cellular Aging, And Now We Know How [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/theres-a-gene-that-reverses-cellular-aging-and-now-we-know-how/

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. Medical ADP Systems: Composite Health Care System Is Not Ready to Be Deployed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 May. Report No.: IMTEC-92-54.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salie A. Servant-minded leadership and work satisfaction in Islamic organizations: A correlational mixed study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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

St. John Kelly E. F.Y.I. New York Times. 1999 Jan 17;142.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Standen 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Standen 2000; Yamamoto and Tanaka 2001).

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

Two authors: (Yamamoto and Tanaka 2001)
Three or more authors: (Liao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Information Security Technical Report
Abbreviation	Inf. Secur. Tech. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1363-4127
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Software Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality