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 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

Ellis, G.F.R.: Physics, complexity and causality. Nature. 435, 743 (2005)

A journal article with 2 authors

Weaver, A.J., Zwiers, F.W.: Uncertainty in climate change. Nature. 407, 571–572 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Sreekanth, K.V., De Luca, A., Strangi, G.: Experimental demonstration of surface and bulk plasmon polaritons in hypergratings. Sci. Rep. 3, 3291 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Holden, L.G., Prochnow, C., Chang, Y.P., Bransteitter, R., Chelico, L., Sen, U., Stevens, R.C., Goodman, M.F., Chen, X.S.: Crystal structure of the anti-viral APOBEC3G catalytic domain and functional implications. Nature. 456, 121–124 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smeets, R., der Sluis, L. van, Kapetanović, M., Peelo, D.F., Janssen, A.: Switching in Electrical Transmission and Distribution Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Roossinck, M.J. ed: Plant Virus Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

A chapter in an edited book

Pohl, K.-H.: “Immanent Transcendence” in the Chinese Tradition: Remarks on a Chinese (and Sinological) Controversy. In: Brown, N. and Franke, W. (eds.) Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy. pp. 103–123. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

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

Andrew, E.: Elon Musk’s Brave New World: It Worked For Henry Ford; Why Not Tesla?

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: Aviation Safety and Security: Challenges to Implementing the Recommendations of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety and Security. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1997)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dao, L.-A.T.: Comparison of peripherally inserted intravenous catheter complication prevalence: Before and after changing a 96-hour routine replacement standard, (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

Wagner, J.: Dodgers’ Rookie Manager Learns, and Acts, Quickly, (2016)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ellis 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ellis 2005; Weaver and Zwiers 2000).

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

Two authors: (Weaver and Zwiers 2000)
Three or more authors: (Holden et al. 2008)

About the journal

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