How to format your references using the AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering. 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

Haldeman J (2000) Brochure. The apocalypse: a great day out for the whole family. Nature 405: 401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ranero CR, von Huene R (2000) Subduction erosion along the Middle America convergent margin. Nature 404: 748–752.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lutz W, Muttarak R, Striessnig E (2014) Environment and development. Universal education is key to enhanced climate adaptation. Science 346: 1061–1062.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Winkler WC, Nahvi A, Roth A, et al. (2004) Control of gene expression by a natural metabolite-responsive ribozyme. Nature 428: 281–286.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fitzgerald RW, Meacham BJ (2017) Fire Performance Analysis for Buildings, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Fraser H (2016) Neoliberalization, Universities and the Public Intellectual: Species, Gender and Class and the Production of Knowledge, London, Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Fleishman GD, Toptygin IN (2013) Wave–Particle and Wave–Wave Interactions, In: Toptygin IN (Ed.), Cosmic Electrodynamics: Electrodynamics and Magnetic Hydrodynamics of Cosmic Plasmas, New York, NY, Springer, 139–161.

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 AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) IFLScience, Why The Deep Space Atomic Clock Is Key For Future Space Exploration, 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/why-the-deep-space-atomic-clock-is-key-for-future-space-exploration/.

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

Government Accountability Office (2005) Financial Audit: The Federal Communications Commission’s Fiscal Year 2004 Management Representation Letter on Its Financial Statements, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Soheili A (2008) A transannular Cope approach toward the core structure of isocyclocitrinol.

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

Vecsey G (2010) Harkes Knows the Feeling of Having to Sit Out an Important Match. New York Times B11.

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	AIMS Electronics and Electrical Engineering
ISSN (online)	2578-1588
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