How to format your references using the Advances in Engineering Software citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Engineering Software. 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]

Halavais A. Social science: Open up online research. Nature 2011;480:174–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

O’Neill HSC, Jenner FE. The global pattern of trace-element distributions in ocean floor basalts. Nature 2012;491:698–704.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Paolo FS, Fricker HA, Padman L. Ice sheets. Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating. Science 2015;348:327–31.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nakayama Y, Pauzauskie PJ, Radenovic A, Onorato RM, Saykally RJ, Liphardt J, et al. Tunable nanowire nonlinear optical probe. Nature 2007;447:1098–101.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chen K. Performance Evaluation by Simulation and Analysis with Applications to Computer Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Campora J, Giambastiani G, editors. Olefin Upgrading Catalysis by Nitrogen-based Metal Complexes II: State of the art and Perspectives. vol. 36. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bhasker J, Chadha R. Interconnect Parasitics. In: Bhasker J, editor. Static Timing Analysis for Nanometer Designs: A Practical Approach, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009, p. 101–21.

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 Advances in Engineering Software.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. A Brand New View Of Two Hidden Supermassive Black Holes. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-brand-new-view-on-two-hiding-supermassive-black-holes/ (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. Public-Private Competitions: Access to Records Is Inhibiting Work on Congressional Mandates. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Moody VJ. Examining leadership styles and employee engagement in the public and private sectors. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, 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]

Pilon M. Earning a Royal Silver, as Britain Continues Its Wait for a Gold. New York Times 2012:B13.

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	Advances in Engineering Software
Abbreviation	Adv. Eng. Softw.
ISSN (print)	0965-9978
Scope	Software General Engineering