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]

Adams WM. Conservation. The value of valuing nature. Science 2014;346:549–51.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen IW, Wang XH. Sintering dense nanocrystalline ceramics without final-stage grain growth. Nature 2000;404:168–71.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wu D-A, Kanai R, Shimojo S. Vision: steady-state misbinding of colour and motion. Nature 2004;429:262.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Perillo B, Ombra MN, Bertoni A, Cuozzo C, Sacchetti S, Sasso A, et al. DNA oxidation as triggered by H3K9me2 demethylation drives estrogen-induced gene expression. Science 2008;319:202–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Singh MP, Huhns MN. Service-Oriented Computing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Spielman WS, Parameswaran N, editors. RAMPs. vol. 744. New York, NY: Springer US; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Boudjehem D, Boudjehem B. A Fractional Model Predictive Control for Fractional Order Systems. In: Baleanu D, Machado JAT, Luo ACJ, editors. Fractional Dynamics and Control, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 59–71.

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 C. A Few Awesome Facts About Your Own Body That You Probably Didn’t Know. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/a-few-awesome-facts-about-your-own-body-that-you-probably-didnt-know/ (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 on the Labor Department’s Skill Training Improvement Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Verdi KC. What Does It Mean to Be a Service-Learning Teacher? - An Autoethnography. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2017.

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]

Schwartz J. Tax Advice From Lawmakers and Lawbreakers. New York Times 2017:BU13.

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