How to format your references using the Journal of Location Based Services citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Location Based Services. 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	Download the output style file
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

Clark, Andrew G. 2014. “Genetics: The Vital Y Chromosome.” Nature 508 (7497): 463–465.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brédas, Jean-Luc, and Robert Silbey. 2009. “Chemistry. Excitons Surf along Conjugated Polymer Chains.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5912): 348–349.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lehmann, Sune, Andrew D. Jackson, and Benny E. Lautrup. 2006. “Measures for Measures.” Nature 444 (7122): 1003–1004.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Tamgüney, Gültekin, Michael W. Miller, Lisa L. Wolfe, Tracey M. Sirochman, David V. Glidden, Christina Palmer, Azucena Lemus, Stephen J. DeArmond, and Stanley B. Prusiner. 2009. “Asymptomatic Deer Excrete Infectious Prions in Faeces.” Nature 461 (7263): 529–532.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klepinger, Linda L. 2006. Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Visioli, Antonio. 2011. Control of Integral Processes with Dead Time. Edited by Qingchang Zhong. Advances in Industrial Control. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Rintaluoma, Tero, Timo Reinikka, Joona Rouvinen, Jani Boutellier, Pekka Jääskeläinen, and Olli Silvén. 2009. “Programmable Accelerators for Reconfigurable Video Decoder.” In Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation: 9th International Workshop, SAMOS 2009, Samos, Greece, July 20-23, 2009. Proceedings, edited by Koen Bertels, Nikitas Dimopoulos, Cristina Silvano, and Stephan Wong, 36–47. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Location Based Services.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. 2017. “Scientists Have Discovered The First 2D Magnet.” IFLScience, IFLScience, June 8. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-have-discovered-the-first-2d-magnet/.

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. 2015. Race to the Top: Education Could Better Support Grantees and Help Them Address Capacity Challenges. GAO-15-295. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Woodland, Ryan Jordan. 2010. “Investigating the Role of the Mid-Atlantic Inner Continental Shelf as a Marine Finfish Nursery: A Comparative Approach.” Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Greenhouse, Linda. 2006. “Some Whistle-Blowers Lose Free-Speech Protections.” New York Times, May 31, 2006.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Clark 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Clark 2014; Brédas and Silbey 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Brédas and Silbey 2009)
Three authors: (Lehmann, Jackson, and Lautrup 2006)
4 or more authors: (Tamgüney et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Location Based Services
Abbreviation	J. Location Based Serv.
ISSN (print)	1748-9725
ISSN (online)	1748-9733
Scope	Computer Networks and Communications Signal Processing Electrical and Electronic Engineering