How to format your references using the AIAA Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIAA Journal. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Meyer, M. N., “Misjudgements Will Drive Social Trials Underground,” Nature, Vol. 511, No. 7509, 2014, p. 265.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Forneris, F., and Mattevi, A., “Enzymes without Borders: Mobilizing Substrates, Delivering Products,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 321, No. 5886, 2008, pp. 213–216.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xu, L., Li, X.-Q., and Sun, Q.-F., “Revisit the Spin-FET: Multiple Reflection, Inelastic Scattering, and Lateral Size Effects,” Scientific reports, Vol. 4, 2014, p. 7527.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lu, C., Dong, S., Xia, Z., Luo, H., Yan, Z., Wang, H., Tian, Z., Yuan, S., Wu, T., and Liu, J., “Polarization Enhancement and Ferroelectric Switching Enabled by Interacting Magnetic Structures in DyMnO₃ Thin Films,” Scientific reports, Vol. 3, 2013, p. 3374.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ciana, P., “New Frontiers in Technical Analysis,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Rane, A., Cadeddu, J. A., Desai, M. M., and Gill, I. S., Eds., “Scar-Less Surgery: NOTES, Transumbilical, and Others,” Springer, London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yang, G., and Wang, R., “H2S and Blood Vessels: An Overview,” Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology of Hydrogen Sulfide, edited by P. K. Moore and M. Whiteman, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015, pp. 85–110.

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 AIAA Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Hale, T., “Tilikum, The Orca From The Documentary BlackFish, Has Died,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Jan 06 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tilikum-the-orca-from-the-documentary-blackfish-has-died/

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 Technology: Homeland Security Should Better Balance Need for System Integration Strategy with Spending for New and Enhanced Systems,” GAO-04-509, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, May 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gallardo-Macias, R., “Tin (II) Compounds as Novel Catalysts for the Kabachnik-Fields Reaction: Studies in the Synthesis of Alpha-Aminophosphonates under Solvent Free Conditions and Synthesis of Phosphonates and Phosphates as Reversible and Irreversible Inhibitors of Butyrylcholinesterase,” Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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]

Barron, J., “A Neighborhood Wants Its Historic District Expanded,” New York Times, Jun 18 2017, p. A17.

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	AIAA Journal
Abbreviation	AIAA J.
ISSN (print)	0001-1452
ISSN (online)	1533-385X
Scope	Aerospace Engineering