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

Norell, M.A.: Paleontology. Fossilized feathers. Science. 333, 1590–1591 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Castanotto, D., Rossi, J.J.: The promises and pitfalls of RNA-interference-based therapeutics. Nature. 457, 426–433 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Goossen, L.J., Deng, G., Levy, L.M.: Synthesis of biaryls via catalytic decarboxylative coupling. Science. 313, 662–664 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yu, R.C., Pesce, C.G., Colman-Lerner, A., Lok, L., Pincus, D., Serra, E., Holl, M., Benjamin, K., Gordon, A., Brent, R.: Negative feedback that improves information transmission in yeast signalling. Nature. 456, 755–761 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Randall, J.F.: Designing Indoor Solar Products. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2006)

An edited book

Nin, J., Villatoro, D. eds: Citizen in Sensor Networks: First International Workshop, CitiSens 2012, Montpellier, France, August 27, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

D. Rosengarten, R., Santhanam, B., Katoh-Kurasawa, M.: Transcriptional Regulators: Dynamic Drivers of Multicellular Formation, Cell Differentiation and Development. In: Romeralo, M., Baldauf, S., and Escalante, R. (eds.) Dictyostelids: Evolution, Genomics and Cell Biology. pp. 89–108. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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

Hale, T.: Cassini Captures Gorgeous Shots Of Two Moons Peeking Through Saturn’s Rings

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: BIA and DOD Schools: Student Achievement and Other Characteristics Often Differ from Public Schools’. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2001)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Little, J.L.: The effects of a financial literacy intervention on teachers’ financial literacy, awareness, and advocacy, (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

Stolberg, S.G., Walsh, M.W.: Obama Offers A Transit Plan To Create Jobs, (2010)

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