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]

Baulcombe DC. Molecular biology. Amplified silencing. Science 2007;315:199–200.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lee J-H, Paull TT. Direct activation of the ATM protein kinase by the Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 complex. Science 2004;304:93–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Moser DE, Flowers RM, Hart RJ. Birth of the Kaapvaal tectosphere 3.08 billion years ago. Science 2001;291:465–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Brandon AD, Humayun M, Puchtel IS, Leya I, Zolensky M. Osmium isotope evidence for an s-process carrier in primitive chondrites. Science 2005;309:1233–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Carter KB. Actionable Intelligence. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Schweizer TA, Macdonald RL, editors. The Behavioral Consequences of Stroke. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rodríguez A, Selga J, Martín F, Boria VE. Practical Application of Space Mapping Techniques to the Synthesis of CSRR-Based Artificial Transmission Lines. In: Koziel S, Leifsson L, editors. Surrogate-Based Modeling and Optimization: Applications in Engineering, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 81–97.

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 Advances in Engineering Software.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. Clouds On Venus Could Tell Us What The Surface Looks Like. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/clouds-on-venus-could-tell-us-what-the-surface-looks-like/ (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. Highway Trust Fund: Strategies for Safeguarding Highway Financing. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bardhoshi G. The Relationship Between Assignment of Non-Counseling Duties and Burnout Among Professional School Counselors. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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]

Antilla S. Gender Bias Case Against Sterling Jewelers Can Proceed. New York Times 2015:B8.

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

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