How to format your references using the Pervasive and Mobile Computing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 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

[1]

D. Gershon, Developing countries and poorest people targeted by UN centre, Nature 408 (2000) 754.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Hermisson, A.P. McGregor, Pleiotropic scaling and QTL data, Nature 456 (2008) E3; discussion E4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Lee, B.-J. Lin, A.K. Lee, Hippocampal place fields emerge upon single-cell manipulation of excitability during behavior, Science 337 (2012) 849–853.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Pätzold, S. Tellmann, B. Häusler, D. Hinson, R. Schaa, G.L. Tyler, A sporadic third layer in the ionosphere of Mars, Science 310 (2005) 837–839.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.D. Chiasson, Geothermal Heat Pump and Heat Engine Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M. Kalvius, P. Kienle, eds., The Rudolf Mössbauer Story: His Scientific Work and Its Impact on Science and History, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Jana, P. Kumar, G. Panda, Efficient Portfolio for Interval Sharpe Ratio Model, in: R.N. Mohapatra, D.R. Chowdhury, D. Giri (Eds.), Mathematics and Computing: ICMC, Haldia, India, January 2015, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015: pp. 59–77.

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 Pervasive and Mobile Computing.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Dispersant May Have Actually Hindered Oil-Degrading Microbes During BP Spill Clean-Up, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oil-dispersant-may-have-hindered-oil-degrading-microbes-during-bp-spill-clean/ (accessed October 30, 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, Assessing the Federal Program for Strengthening Developing Institutions of Higher Education, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.A. Hirschy, Differences in usage of federally funded insurance options by women, Doctoral dissertation, 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]

K. Crow, Time for Recalling the Departed And Reuniting the Long-Lost Related, New York Times (2001) 146.

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	Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Abbreviation	Pervasive Mob. Comput.
ISSN (print)	1574-1192
Scope	Computer Science (miscellaneous) Applied Mathematics