How to format your references using the Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development. 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

Poskett J (2012) Mathematics: a life computed. Nature 486:321

A journal article with 2 authors

Ward LD, Kellis M (2013) Response to comment on “Evidence of abundant purifying selection in humans for recently acquired regulatory functions.” Science 340:682

A journal article with 3 authors

Brockmann D, Hufnagel L, Geisel T (2006) The scaling laws of human travel. Nature 439:462–465

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Tang W, Lu Y, Tian Q-Y, et al (2011) The growth factor progranulin binds to TNF receptors and is therapeutic against inflammatory arthritis in mice. Science 332:478–484

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Center for Chemical Process Safety (2011) Recognizing Catastrophic Incident Warning Signs in the Process Industries. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hanson WS, Oltean IA (eds) (2013) Archaeology from Historical Aerial and Satellite Archives. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Chen W, Lu P, Sun X, et al (2011) Optimal Pricing in Social Networks with Incomplete Information. In: Chen N, Elkind E, Koutsoupias E (eds) Internet and Network Economics: 7th International Workshop, WINE 2011, Singapore, December 11-14, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–60

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 Software Engineering Research and Development.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) “Air Conditioning System” May Make Hot Planets Habitable. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/air-conditioning-system-may-turn-hot-planets-habitable/. 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

Government Accountability Office (2016) Child Care: Information on Integrating Early Care and Education Funding. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cao L (2017) Mathematical Modeling of Long-Term Productivity of Hydraulic- and HEG- Fractured Wells in Ultra-Low Permeability Reservoirs. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Poniewozik J (2016) Back Home, Crashing on a Couch and Dreaming of Rap Greatness. New York Times C5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Poskett 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Poskett 2012; Ward and Kellis 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ward and Kellis 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tang et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development
Abbreviation	J. Softw. Eng. Res. Dev.
ISSN (online)	2195-1721
Scope