How to format your references using the Advanced Robotics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Robotics. 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]

Painter PR. Rivers, blood and transportation networks. Nature. 2000;408:159; discussion 160.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Scholes RJ, Noble IR. Climate change. Storing carbon on land. Science. 2001;294:1012–1013.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dietl GP, Herbert GS, Vermeij GJ. Reduced competition and altered feeding behavior among marine snails after a mass extinction. Science. 2004;306:2229–2231.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Knutti R, Stocker TF, Joos F, et al. Constraints on radiative forcing and future climate change from observations and climate model ensembles. Nature. 2002;416:719–723.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Phelan J. Reading the American Novel 1920-2010. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Trajkovik V, Anastas M, editors. ICT Innovations 2013: ICT Innovations and Education. Heidelberg: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Moreno-Díaz R, Moreno-Díaz A, de Blasio G. Local Space-Time Systems Simulation of Linear and Non-linear Retinal Processes. In: Moreno-Díaz R, Pichler F, Quesada-Arencibia A, editors. Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2009: 12th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 15-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 25–32.

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 Robotics.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Doctors have cleared second baby of HIV [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-have-cleared-second-baby-hiv/.

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. Coordination of Government Research and Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976. Report No.: 094665. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Britt CA. Dying in America: A historical analysis of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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]

Knopper S. American Phoenix. New York Times. 2017 Sep 11;TR1.

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 Robotics
Abbreviation	Adv. Robot.
ISSN (print)	0169-1864
ISSN (online)	1568-5535
Scope	Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture Human-Computer Interaction Software Control and Systems Engineering

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