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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Check E (2002) Safety panel backs principle of gene-therapy trials. Nature 420: 595.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vidale JE, Li Y-G (2003) Damage to the shallow Landers fault from the nearby Hector Mine earthquake. Nature 421: 524–526.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lam E, Kato N, Lawton M (2001) Programmed cell death, mitochondria and the plant hypersensitive response. Nature 411: 848–853.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rose BC, Huang D, Zhang Z-H, et al. (2018) Observation of an environmentally insensitive solid-state spin defect in diamond. Science 361: 60–63.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinelli RJ, Waddell JM, Rahschulte TJ (2014) Program Management for Improved Business Results, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ebert A, Dix A, Gershon ND, et al. (Eds.) (2011) Human Aspects of Visualization: Second IFIP WG 13.7 Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Visualization, HCIV (INTERACT) 2009, Uppsala, Sweden, August 24, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bruni R, Corradini A, Gadducci F, et al. (2010) On GS-Monoidal Theories for Graphs with Nesting, In: Engels G, Lewerentz C, Schäfer W, et al. (Eds.), Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engineering: Essays Dedicated to Manfred Nagl on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 59–86.

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

Andrew E (2015) IFLScience, Modified mRNA Lengthens Telomeres, Extending Longevity of Human Cells, 2015.

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 (1993) Technology Transfer: Implementation of CRADAs at NIST, Army, and DOE, 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

Olanisa EL (2012) Mental health issues and use of health care services among older immigrant women in California.

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

Leland J (2017) The Blink of an Eye. New York Times MB7.

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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