How to format your references using the Journal of Instrumentation citation style

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

F. H. Busse, Physics. Visualizing the dynamics of the onset of turbulence, Science 305, (2004) 1574.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Halfmann and S. Lindquist, Epigenetics in the extreme: prions and the inheritance of environmentally acquired traits, Science 330, (2010) 629.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. B. Silvarolla, P. Mazzafera and L. C. Fazuoli, Plant biochemistry: a naturally decaffeinated arabica coffee, Nature 429, (2004) 826.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

[1]

M. M. Gottesman, S. R. Shmookler, S. B. Oppenheimer and J. W. Dolce, Math and science education: training the teachers, Science 290, (2000) 273b.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. T. Todinov, Reliability and Risk Models, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, (2005).

An edited book

[1]

R. Barták and M. Milano, Eds., Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming for Combinatorial Optimization Problems: Second International Conference, CPAIOR 2005, Prague, Czech Republic, May 31-June 1, 2005. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2005).

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. A. Ellison and L. S. Greenberg, Emotion-Focused Experiential Therapy, in Handbook of Homework Assignments in Psychotherapy: Research, Practice, and Prevention, N. Kazantzis and L. LĽAbate, Eds., Springer US, Boston, MA, (2007).

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 Instrumentation.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Antifreeze from Ticks Offer Frostbite Protection for Mice, IFLScience, IFLScience, (2015)https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antifreeze-ticks-offer-frostbite-protection-mice/ (30 October 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, Telecommunications: Challenges to Assessing and Improving Telecommunications For Native Americans on Tribal Lands, GAO-06-189, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2006).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Beverley, Golf as a tool for executive leadership development, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, (2014).

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]

J. Williams, A Parent’s Small Moment of Grace, in New York Times, (2017).

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 Instrumentation
Abbreviation	J. Instrum.
ISSN (online)	1748-0221
Scope	Mathematical Physics Instrumentation