How to format your references using the Journal of Internet Services and Applications citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Internet Services 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. Weyer S. Geochemistry. What drives iron isotope fractionation in magma? Science. 2008;320:1600–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lefkowitz RJ, Shenoy SK. Transduction of receptor signals by beta-arrestins. Science. 2005;308:512–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Huang J, Lesser CF, Lory S. The essential role of the CopN protein in Chlamydia pneumoniae intracellular growth. Nature. 2008;456:112–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Stevens DR, Seifert R, Bufe B, Müller F, Kremmer E, Gauss R, et al. Hyperpolarization-activated channels HCN1 and HCN4 mediate responses to sour stimuli. Nature. 2001;413:631–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hornberg A. Handbook of Machine and Computer Vision. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

1. Turnbull J. Pro Linux System Administration. Lieverdink P, Matotek D, editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Boender CGE, Bovenberg AL, van Hoogdalem S, Nijman TE. Optimal risk-sharing in private and collective pension contracts. In: Steenbeek O, Lecq F van der, editors. Costs and Benefits of Collective Pension Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 75–93.

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 Internet Services and Applications.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Uranus May Have Two More Undiscovered Moons [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/uranus-may-have-two-more-undiscovered-moons/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Transportation Security: DHS Efforts to Eliminate Redundant Background Check Investigations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007 Apr. Report No.: GAO-07-756.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Madapatha SA. Energy efficient hierarchical wireless routing protocol (EEHW routing protocol) [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Rao PS, Isaac M. Uber, Lamenting Cost of ‘Bad Reputation,’ Loses London License. New York Times. 2017 Sep 22;A1.

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 Internet Services and Applications
Abbreviation	J. Internet Serv. Appl.
ISSN (print)	1867-4828
ISSN (online)	1869-0238
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Computer Science Applications