How to format your references using the Internet of Things citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Internet of Things. 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

[1]

I. Favero, Optomechanics: Listening to quantum grains of sound, Nature 520 (2015) 441–442.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Louf, M. Barthelemy, How congestion shapes cities: from mobility patterns to scaling, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5561.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.D. Howes, R. Chandrawati, M.M. Stevens, Bionanotechnology. Colloidal nanoparticles as advanced biological sensors, Science 346 (2014) 1247390.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L. Yen, J. Svendsen, J.-S. Lee, J.T. Gray, M. Magnier, T. Baba, R.J. D’Amato, R.C. Mulligan, Exogenous control of mammalian gene expression through modulation of RNA self-cleavage, Nature 431 (2004) 471–476.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Zinkin, Rebuilding Trust in Banks, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

M.V. Sokolova, Decision Making in Complex Systems: The DeciMaS Agent-based Interdisciplinary Framework Approach, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R.W. McGee, Disclosure&Transparency, in: R.W. McGee (Ed.), Corporate Governance in Developing Economies: Country Studies of Africa, Asia and Latin America, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2009: pp. 43–48.

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 Internet of Things.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, DNA from Feces Reveals that Vampire Bats Thirst for Pork Most, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dna-feces-reveals-vampire-bats-thirst-pork-most/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Pipeline Safety: Status of Improving Oversight of the Pipeline Industry, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Muehlhauser, Perceived Criticism, Self-Criticism, and Disordered Eating Patterns in College Students, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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

[1]

A. Barnard, U.S. Coalition Munition Use Is Scrutinized In Syria, New York Times (2017) A8.

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	Internet of Things
ISSN (print)	2542-6605
Scope