How to format your references using the Automated Experimentation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Automated Experimentation. 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. Schiermeier Q. Call for more accelerator research. Nature. 2000;405:988.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ridderinkhof KR, van den Wildenberg WPM. Neuroscience. Adaptive coding. Science. 2005;307:1059–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Barkeshli M, Berg E, Kivelson S. Coherent transmutation of electrons into fractionalized anyons. Science. 2014;346:722–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ju B-G, Lunyak VV, Perissi V, Garcia-Bassets I, Rose DW, Glass CK, et al. A topoisomerase IIbeta-mediated dsDNA break required for regulated transcription. Science. 2006;312:1798–802.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Burwick F. Romanticism. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Ritsner MS, editor. Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume I: Conceptual Issues and Neurobiological Advances. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Becerra HM, Sagüés C. Conclusions. In: Sagüés C, editor. Visual Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots: Unifying Vision and Control in Generic Approaches. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 99–101.

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 Automated Experimentation.

Blog post

1. Davis J. Kenya Set To Burn World’s Largest Ever Ivory Stockpile. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/kenya-set-burn-worlds-largest-ever-ivory-stockpile/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Electromagnetic Interference with Medical Devices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kurtz WA. Under the Balaclava: A Case Study Examining Habits Within the Identity of Elite Counterterrorists. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2017.

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. Gurley G. That Extra Mile for Love. New York Times. 2015;:D1.

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	Automated Experimentation
ISSN (print)	1759-4499
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