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]

Vogt M. ECOLOGY. Adrift in an ocean of change. Science 2015;350:1466–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hemmer P, Gomes C. Physics. Single proteins under a diamond spotlight. Science 2015;347:1072–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Grenier IA, Casandjian J-M, Terrier R. Unveiling extensive clouds of dark gas in the solar neighborhood. Science 2005;307:1292–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Cole BE, Williams JB, King BT, Sherwin MS, Stanley CR. Coherent manipulation of semiconductor quantum bits with terahertz radiation. Nature 2001;410:60–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Yao Y, Liu S. Ultrasonic Technology for Desiccant Regeneration. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Grove A, Berg GA, editors. Social Business: Theory, Practice, and Critical Perspectives. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dubois D. Degrees of Truth, Ill-Known Sets and Contradiction. In: Bouchon-Meunier B, Magdalena L, Ojeda-Aciego M, Verdegay J-L, Yager RR, editors. Foundations of Reasoning under Uncertainty, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 65–83.

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]

Luntz S. Natural Disasters Spark Civil Wars. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/natural-disasters-spark-civil-wars/ (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. School Vouchers: Characteristics of Privately Funded Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

McConnell KF. Inventing pluralistic education: Compulsory schooling as technique of democratic deliberation. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2008.

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]

Nir SM. Fire’s Death Toll: ‘5 Amazing People Full of Life,’ the Oldest of Them 20. New York Times 2017: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	Advances in Engineering Software
Abbreviation	Adv. Eng. Softw.
ISSN (print)	0965-9978
Scope	Software General Engineering