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

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

Towe KM (2002) The problematic rise of Archean oxygen. Science 295:1419

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsumoto Y, Maller JL (2002) Calcium, calmodulin, and CaMKII requirement for initiation of centrosome duplication in Xenopus egg extracts. Science 295:499–502

A journal article with 3 authors

Kitching RP, Taylor NM, Thrusfield MV (2007) Veterinary epidemiology: vaccination strategies for foot-and-mouth disease. Nature 445:E12; discussion E12-3

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yamanouchi M, Chiba D, Matsukura F, Ohno H (2004) Current-induced domain-wall switching in a ferromagnetic semiconductor structure. Nature 428:539–542

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edwards DW (2014) Risk Management in Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Kazanietz MG (2010) Protein Kinase C in Cancer Signaling and Therapy. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ

A chapter in an edited book

Thomas L (2016) Data as Constant Becomings. In: Reinertsen AB (ed) Becoming Earth: A Post Human Turn in Educational Discourse Collapsing Nature/Culture Divides. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp 41–51

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 Social Robotics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) Scientists Find Something Very Bizarre Behind Pluto. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/plutos-atmosphere-being-stripped-away-sun-and-forming-comet-tail/. 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 (1977) Space Transportation System: Past, Present, Future. 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

He H (2006) Numerical Simulations of Unsteady Flows in a Pulse Detonation Engine by the Space-Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Koblin J (2016) James Corden Chosen to Host Grammys. New York Times C3

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	International Journal of Social Robotics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Soc. Robot.
ISSN (print)	1875-4791
ISSN (online)	1875-4805
Scope	General Computer Science