How to format your references using the Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems. 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

Ciufolini, I.: Dragging of inertial frames, Nature, 449, 41–47, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dubrulle, J. and Pourquié, O.: fgf8 mRNA decay establishes a gradient that couples axial elongation to patterning in the vertebrate embryo, Nature, 427, 419–422, 2004.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khalil, A. M., Cambier, J. C., and Shlomchik, M. J.: B cell receptor signal transduction in the GC is short-circuited by high phosphatase activity, Science, 336, 1178–1181, 2012.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Pannuzzo, M., Raudino, A., Milardi, D., La Rosa, C., and Karttunen, M.: α-helical structures drive early stages of self-assembly of amyloidogenic amyloid polypeptide aggregate formation in membranes, Sci. Rep., 3, 2781, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, C. L.: Distillation Control, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

Chamoin, L. and Díez, P. (Eds.): Verifying Calculations - Forty Years On: An Overview of Classical Verification Techniques for FEM Simulations, 1st ed. 2016., Springer International Publishing, Cham, VII, 94 p. 20 illus p., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Gómez, A. and Lunt, D. H.: Refugia within Refugia: Patterns of Phylogeographic Concordance in the Iberian Peninsula, in: Phylogeography of Southern European Refugia: Evolutionary perspectives on the origins and conservation of European biodiversity, edited by: Weiss, S. and Ferrand, N., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 155–188, 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 Sensors and Sensor Systems.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: The Recession Is The Real Reason For The U.S.’s Reduced Emissions, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/recession-real-reason-reduced-emissions/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2015., 2015.

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: Rail Safety: Preliminary Observations on Federal Rail Safety Oversight and Positive Train Control Implementation, GAO-13-679T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

White, J.: Support group for family caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients: A grant proposal, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Lewis, M. J.: The Art of War, , New York Times11th SeptemberBR21, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ciufolini, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Ciufolini, 2007; Dubrulle and Pourquié, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Dubrulle and Pourquié, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Pannuzzo et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Sensors and Sensor Systems
Abbreviation	J. Sens. Sens. Syst.
ISSN (print)	2194-8771
ISSN (online)	2194-878X
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Instrumentation