How to format your references using the Soft Robotics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Soft Robotics (SORO). 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

Neuzil CE. Osmotic generation of “anomalous” fluid pressures in geological environments. Nature 2000;403(6766):182–184.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shen Y, Lua AC. A facile method for the large-scale continuous synthesis of graphene sheets using a novel catalyst. Sci Rep 2013;3:3037.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortin PD, Walsh CT, Magarvey NA. A transglutaminase homologue as a condensation catalyst in antibiotic assembly lines. Nature 2007;448(7155):824–827.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zykov V, Mytilinaios E, Adams B, et al. Robotics: self-reproducing machines. Nature 2005;435(7039):163–164.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nathanail CP, Bardos RP. Reclamation of Contaminated Land. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2005.

An edited book

Parthasarathy N, (ed). Biodiversity of Lianas. Sustainable Development and Biodiversity. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Rubio-Suárez JC. Complex Fractures of the Pelvic Ring. In: Complex Fractures of the Limbs: Diagnosis and Management. (Rodríguez-Merchán EC, Rubio-Suárez JC. eds) Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2014; pp. 37–50.

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 Soft Robotics.

Blog post

Fang J. Invasive Pythons Feast on Radiotracked Rabbits. IFLScience; 2015. [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Student Loans: Default Rates at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hausmann RC. Organizing Ecosystems for Social Innovation: The Relationality of Contexts and Mechanisms in a Social Entrepreneurship Network. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 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

RICHARD BERNSTEIN; Sophia Kishkovsky contributed reporting from Moscow for this article, Judy Dempsey of The International Herald Tribune from Berlin. After Centuries of Enmity, Relations Between Poland and Russia Are as Bad as Ever. New York Times 2005;14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Soft Robotics
ISSN (print)	2169-5172
ISSN (online)	2169-5180
Scope