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]

M. Kono, Geophysics. Ships’ logs and archeomagnetism, Science 312 (2006) 865–866.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Bell, A. Gonzalez, Adaptation and evolutionary rescue in metapopulations experiencing environmental deterioration, Science 332 (2011) 1327–1330.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Merritt, L. Ferrarese, C.L. Joseph, No supermassive black hole in M33?, Science 293 (2001) 1116–1118.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Q.-H. Hu, Z.-Q. Xie, X.-M. Wang, H. Kang, Q.-F. He, P. Zhang, Secondary organic aerosols over oceans via oxidation of isoprene and monoterpenes from Arctic to Antarctic, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

I. Buchstaller, Quotatives, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Y.N. Grigoriev, Symmetries of Integro-Differential Equations: With Applications in Mechanics and Plasma Physics, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Matoušek, String graphs and separators, in: J. Matoušek, J. Nešetřil, M. Pellegrini (Eds.), Geometry, Structure and Randomness in Combinatorics, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2014: pp. 61–97.

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]

S. Luntz, Amazing Inside View Of Fireworks Taken By A Drone, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/amazing-inside-view-fireworks-taken-drone/ (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, Information Systems: Agencies Overlook Security Controls During Development, 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]

M.L. Jurica, Napping in the workplace as an invisible stigma: The moderating roles of raters’ nap habit, work ethic, and organizational policy, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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. Saslow, A $10 Million Grant for Homes for the Homeless, New York Times (2007) LI2.

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