How to format your references using the Automotive and Engine Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Automotive and Engine Technology. 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

Fitzsimmons, A.: Planetary science. Ice among the rocks. Science. 312, 535–536 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellis, B.E., Miles, G.P.: Plant biology. One for all? Science. 292, 2022–2023 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyron-Holtz, E.G., Ghosh, M.C., Rouault, T.A.: Mammalian tissue oxygen levels modulate iron-regulatory protein activities in vivo. Science. 306, 2087–2090 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hou, H.W., Warkiani, M.E., Khoo, B.L., Li, Z.R., Soo, R.A., Tan, D.S.-W., Lim, W.-T., Han, J., Bhagat, A.A.S., Lim, C.T.: Isolation and retrieval of circulating tumor cells using centrifugal forces. Sci. Rep. 3, 1259 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinquis, A.: Digital Signal Processing using MATLAB®. ISTE, London, UK (2008)

An edited book

Micklin, P., Aladin, N.V., Plotnikov, I. eds: The Aral Sea: The Devastation and Partial Rehabilitation of a Great Lake. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Prokou, E.: University Reform in Greece: A Shift from Intrinsic to Extrinsic Values. In: Mattheou, D. (ed.) Changing Educational Landscapes: Educational Policies, Schooling Systems and Higher Education - a comparative perspective. pp. 59–74. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2010)

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 Automotive and Engine Technology.

Blog post

Luntz, S.: Supercharged Vancomycin Kills Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/supercharged-vancomycin-kills-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria/

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: Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Weakness in FAA’s Insurance Calculation May Expose the Federal Government to Excess Risk. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2017)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Davis, J.A.: Demobilizing the Minors: Examining Compliance with International Child Soldiering Laws, (2011)

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.: Cespedes Said to Accept Highest Salary in Mets History, (2016)

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	Automotive and Engine Technology
Abbreviation	Automot. Engine Technol.
ISSN (print)	2365-5127
ISSN (online)	2365-5135
Scope