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

Distel, J.R.: Obituary: Raymond Davis Jr (1914-2006). Nature. 442, 150 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Pisharody, S.N., Jones, R.R.: Probing two-electron dynamics of an atom. Science. 303, 813–815 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Monteggia, L.M., Malenka, R.C., Deisseroth, K.: Depression: the best way forward. Nature. 515, 200–201 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Planatscher, H., Rimmele, S., Michel, G., Pötz, O., Joos, T., Schneiderhan-Marra, N.: Systematic reference sample generation for multiplexed serological assays. Sci. Rep. 3, 3259 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baldi, P., Frasconi, P., Smyth, P.: Modeling the Internet and the Web: Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2002)

An edited book

Velázquez, A.: Standardized Hierarchical Vegetation Classification: Mexican and Global Patterns. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Ayguadé, E., Beyer, J., Duran, A., Ferrer, R., Haab, G., Li, K., Massaioli, F.: An Extension to Improve OpenMP Tasking Control. In: Sato, M., Hanawa, T., Müller, M.S., Chapman, B.M., and Supinski, B.R. de (eds.) Beyond Loop Level Parallelism in OpenMP: Accelerators, Tasking and More: 6th Internationan Workshop on OpenMP, IWOMP 2010, Tsukuba, Japan, June 14-16, 2010 Proceedings. pp. 56–69. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (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

Andrew, E.: Scientists Finally Discover Insulin-Suppressing Hormone, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-finally-discover-insulin-suppressing-hormone/

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: Need for Improved Management and Increased Sharing of Computer Resources at the San Antonio Data Services Center. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1980)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Belic, B.: Complement Verb Variation in Present-Day Serbian, (2005)

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

Hernández, J.C., Drucker, J.: Wooing China Investors With the Trump Name And Offers of U.S. Visas, (2017)

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
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