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]

A. Hejnol, Evolutionary biology: Excitation over jelly nerves, Nature 510 (2014) 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Hall, R.J. Stouffer, An abrupt climate event in a coupled ocean-atmosphere simulation without external forcing, Nature 409 (2001) 171–174.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Hunt, D. McGrath, N. Stergiou, The influence of auditory-motor coupling on fractal dynamics in human gait, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5879.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Stroebel, Y. Choquet, J.-L. Popot, D. Picot, An atypical haem in the cytochrome b(6)f complex, Nature 426 (2003) 413–418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

O. Anaya-Lara, D. Campos-Gaona, E. Moreno-Goytia, G. Adam, Offshore Wind Energy Generation, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

G. Perrone, M. Bruccoleri, P. Renna, eds., Designing and Evaluating Value Added Services in Manufacturing E-Market Places, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.I. Christensen, G.D. Hager, Sensing and Estimation, in: B. Siciliano, O. Khatib (Eds.), Springer Handbook of Robotics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 87–107.

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]

B. Taub, Pain Receptors Are Tuned To Specific Types Of Pain, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/pain-receptors-tuned-specific-types-pain/ (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, Civil Agency Aircraft: Agencies’ Use of Certain Aircraft to Transport Passengers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R. Le, Three-Power Power System State Estimation Using Extended Kalman Filter with CompactRIO Implementation, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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]

M.M. Chapman, A Year in the Slow Lane in a ’30 Ford, New York Times (2011) AU1.

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