How to format your references using the Security Informatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Security Informatics. 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

Sarewitz D (2013) Science’s rightful place is in service of society. Nature 502:595

A journal article with 2 authors

Zeller D, Booth S (2005) Costs and benefits of regulating mercury. Science 310:777–9; author reply 777-9

A journal article with 3 authors

Shen Y, Knoll AH, Walter MR (2003) Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin. Nature 423:632–635

A journal article with 5 or more authors

McEvilly RJ, de Diaz MO, Schonemann MD, et al (2002) Transcriptional regulation of cortical neuron migration by POU domain factors. Science 295:1528–1532

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Port M (2008) Beyond Booked Solid. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Li X (2012) Graph Energy. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Morales Guerrero LE (2016) A Story of Hilbert’s Tenth Problem. In: Omodeo EG, Policriti A (eds) Martin Davis on Computability, Computational Logic, and Mathematical Foundations. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 93–105

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 Security Informatics.

Blog post

Luntz S (2017) Seawater Can Reach Right To The Edge Of The Earth’s Core. In: IFLScience. 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 (1981) Review of Contractors’ Pension and Other Benefits for Employees Working at NASA’s Scientific and Technical Information Facility. 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

Smith MP (2009) De la página a la pantalla: Memoria de la Guerra Civil española en la narrativa contemporánea. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Lane MM (2016) In Forbidden Art, Beauty and Brutality. New York Times C1

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	Security Informatics
Abbreviation	Secur. Inform.
ISSN (online)	2190-8532
Scope