How to format your references using the Automated Software Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Automated Software 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

Theobald, D.L.: A formal test of the theory of universal common ancestry. Nature. 465, 219–222 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Graf, T., Enver, T.: Forcing cells to change lineages. Nature. 462, 587–594 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wheeler, Q., Assis, L., Rieppel, O.: Phylogenetics: Heed the father of cladistics. Nature. 496, 295–296 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huang, Y., Ji, L., Huang, Q., Vassylyev, D.G., Chen, X., Ma, J.-B.: Structural insights into mechanisms of the small RNA methyltransferase HEN1. Nature. 461, 823–827 (2009)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gasser, W., Heiner, E., Elk, K.: Greensche Funktionen in Festkörper- und Vielteilchenphysik. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG (2005)

An edited book

Street, B., Baker, D., Tomlin, A. eds: Navigating Numeracies: Home/School Numeracy Practices. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Z., Gao, C., Sun, Y.: Research on Collision Detection of Tree Swaying in Wind. In: Yu, Y., Yu, Z., and Zhao, J. (eds.) Computer Science for Environmental Engineering and EcoInformatics: International Workshop, CSEEE 2011, Kunming, China, July 29-31, 2011, Proceedings, Part II. pp. 18–23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

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 Software Engineering.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: NASA Set To Launch Swarm of Laser-Guided Cube Satellites, https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-launch-swarm-laser-guided-cube-satellites/

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: Space Station: Actions Under Way to Manage Cost, but Significant Challenges Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2002)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peters, A.: The mark of gender: Depicting power and the female body in colonial Peru, (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

Beard, M.: Wrath in the Time of Choler, (2017)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Theobald 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Graf and Enver 2009; Theobald 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Graf and Enver 2009)
Three or more authors: (Huang et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Automated Software Engineering
Abbreviation	Autom. Softw. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0928-8910
ISSN (online)	1573-7535
Scope	Software