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

Garwood, R.: Uprooting researchers can drive them out of science. Nature. 510, 313 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Simonson, A.B., Lake, J.A.: The transorientation hypothesis for codon recognition during protein synthesis. Nature. 416, 281–285 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Inaba, M., Buszczak, M., Yamashita, Y.M.: Nanotubes mediate niche-stem-cell signalling in the Drosophila testis. Nature. 523, 329–332 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Deville, P., Wang, D., Sinatra, R., Song, C., Blondel, V.D., Barabási, A.-L.: Career on the move: geography, stratification, and scientific impact. Sci. Rep. 4, 4770 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne, C.: Sinusoidal Vibration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Ćulibrk, D.: Sensing Technologies For Precision Irrigation. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Robyns, B., Francois, B., Degobert, P., Hautier, J.P.: Theoretical Study of the Parametric Sensitivity. In: Francois, B., Degobert, P., and Hautier, J.P. (eds.) Vector Control of Induction Machines: Desensitisation and Optimisation Through Fuzzy Logic. pp. 123–153. Springer, London (2012)

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

Fang, J.: Scientists Have Sequenced the Coffee Genome!, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-have-sequenced-coffee-genome/

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: Weather Forecasting: Important Issues on Automated Weather Processing System Need Resolution. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Turney, J.J.: Police supervisory attributes that influence attitude towards Critical Incident Stress Management programs, (2014)

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

Pilon, M.: Another Dutch Sweep Leaves Americans Baffled, (2014)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garwood 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Garwood 2014; Simonson and Lake 2002).

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

Two authors: (Simonson and Lake 2002)
Three or more authors: (Deville et al. 2014)

About the journal

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