How to format your references using the Advanced Engineering Informatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Engineering 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	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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

J.B. Burnell, Astronomy. Pulsars 40 years on, Science 318 (2007) 579–581.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Chen, A.N. Koehler, Drug discovery. Tying up a transcription factor, Science 347 (2015) 713–714.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Ogata, K. Nishikawa, W. Lubitz, Hydrogens detected by subatomic resolution protein crystallography in a [NiFe] hydrogenase, Nature 520 (2015) 571–574.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Gauthier-Clerc, Y. Le Maho, Y. Clerquin, S. Drault, Y. Handrich, Penguin fathers preserve food for their chicks, Nature 408 (2000) 928–929.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.A. Belliotti, Dante’s Deadly Sins, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

A.T. Azar, S. Vaidyanathan, eds., Chaos Modeling and Control Systems Design, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.J. Bernstein, P. Birkner, T. Lange, Starfish on Strike, in: M. Abdalla, P.S.L.M. Barreto (Eds.), Progress in Cryptology – LATINCRYPT 2010: First International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, Puebla, Mexico, August 8-11, 2010, Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 61–80.

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 Advanced Engineering Informatics.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Burst of Innovation Found in Jurassic Mammals, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/burst-innovation-found-jurassic-mammals/ (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, Opportunity To Improve Indian Education in Schools Operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.A. Huber, Building an army: A corollary study of group interaction and group productivity, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2012.

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]

L. Greenhouse, American (Judicial) Idol, New York Times (2010) A19.

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	Advanced Engineering Informatics
Abbreviation	Adv. Eng. Inform.
ISSN (print)	1474-0346
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Information Systems