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]

Neu, U., “Is Recent Major Hurricane Activity Normal?,” Nature, Vol. 451, No. 7181, 2008, pp. E5; discussion E6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Norris, D. J., and Aydil, E. S., “Materials Science. Getting Moore from Solar Cells,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 338, No. 6107, 2012, pp. 625–626.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Veríssimo, A., Cochrane, M. A., and Souza, C., Jr, “Ecology. National Forests in the Amazon,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 297, No. 5586, 2002, p. 1478.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Simmonds, R. W., Marchenkov, A., Hoskinson, E., Davis, J. C., and Packard, R. E., “Quantum Interference of Superfluid 3He,” Nature, Vol. 412, No. 6842, 2001, pp. 55–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Saint-Dizier, P., “Musical Rhetoric,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Goethals, B., and Siebes, A., Eds., “Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases: Third International Workshop, KDID 2004, Pisa, Italy, September 20, 2004, Revised Selected and Invited Papers,” Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Thomas, S., “The Places of the Subject: Abjection and the Transcendent City in Nada and La Plaça Del Diamant,” The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain: Beyond the Secular City, edited by A. Cordoba and D. García-Donoso, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016, pp. 79–98.

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]

Andrew, E., “These Cute Slugs Are The Bunnies Of The Sea,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Jul 17 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-cute-slugs-are-actual-bunnies-sea/

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, “Federal Student Aid Formula: Cost-of-Living Adjustment Could Increase Aid to a Small Percentage of Students in High-Cost Areas but Could Also Further Complicate Aid Process,” GAO-09-825, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, August 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Day, C., “Medication-Assisted Treatment: Education for Those Who Assist in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Curriculum Development,” Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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]

Robbins, L., “Chemistry Lab Fire Injures 2 At a Manhattan High School,” New York Times, Jan 03 2014, p. A16.

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