How to format your references using the International Journal of Humanoid Robotics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR). 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

F. Pohl, Brain drain, Nature 408 (2000) 409.

A journal article with 2 authors

F. Romanov-Michailidis and T. Rovis, Organic chemistry: Natural polarity inverted, Nature 523 (2015) 417–418.

A journal article with 3 authors

M. Saitou, S. C. Barton and M. A. Surani, A molecular programme for the specification of germ cell fate in mice, Nature 418 (2002) 293–300.

A journal article with 31 or more authors

S. R. Connolly, T. P. Hughes, D. R. Bellwood and R. H. Karlson, Community structure of corals and reef fishes at multiple scales, Science 309 (2005) 1363–1365.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

B. Schiek, I. Rolfes and H.-J. Siweris, Noise in High-Frequency Circuits and Oscillators (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005).

An edited book

H. Fehske, R. Schneider and A. Weiße (eds.), Computational Many-Particle Physics (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008).

A chapter in an edited book

M. P. Muehlenbein, Human-Wildlife Contact and Emerging Infectious Diseases, in Human-Environment Interactions: Current and Future Directions, eds. E. S. Brondízio and E. F. Moran (Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013), pp. 79–94.

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 International Journal of Humanoid Robotics.

Blog post

S. Luntz, Rubidium Doping Leads To New Solar Cell Efficiency Record, IFLScience, 2017. . Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/rubidium-doping-leads-to-new-solar-cell-efficiency-record/. [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, Satellite Control Systems: Opportunity for DOD to Implement Space Policy and Integrate Capabilities (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

G. G. Peterson, Long-Term Effects of Care Management on Mortality, Hospitalizations, and Medicare Costs Among Chronically-Ill Medicare Beneficiaries (Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2013).

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

N. Kulish, I. Urbina and M. Mazzetti, Hired to Fight Pirates, but Doomed by Boredom, New York Times (2014) A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	International Journal of Humanoid Robotics
Abbreviation	Int. J. HR
ISSN (print)	0219-8436
ISSN (online)	1793-6942
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Mechanical Engineering