How to format your references using the Journal of Information Security and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Information Security and Applications. 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]

Gisin N. Physics. New additions to the Schrödinger cat family. Science 2006;312:63–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Smith MM, Johanson Z. Separate evolutionary origins of teeth from evidence in fossil jawed vertebrates. Science 2003;299:1235–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chaudhari NK, Song MY, Yu J-S. Heteroatom-doped highly porous carbon from human urine. Sci Rep 2014;4:5221.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yanik MF, Cinar H, Cinar HN, Chisholm AD, Jin Y, Ben-Yakar A. Neurosurgery: functional regeneration after laser axotomy. Nature 2004;432:822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rodman GB. Why Cultural Studies? Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Vukotic A. Apache Tomcat 7. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Tsujimoto Y. Suppression of Cavitation Instabilities. In: d’Agostino L, Salvetti MV, editors. Fluid Dynamics of Cavitation and Cavitating Turbopumps, Vienna: Springer; 2007, p. 211–29.

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 Journal of Information Security and Applications.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. The Hunt For ET Will Boost Australian Astronomy. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hunt-et-will-boost-australian-astronomy/ (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. Student Financial Aid Programs: Pell Grant Program Abuse. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mack DL. The Cost of Credit: Protecting Consumers in a Regulated Fringe Credit Market. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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]

Schembari J. Factory Masterpieces. New York Times 2017:TR1.

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	Journal of Information Security and Applications
Abbreviation	J. Inf. Secur. Appl.
ISSN (print)	2214-2126
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Software Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality