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

Faedi, F.: Exoplanets: A glimpse of Earth’s fate. Nature. 526, 515–516 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Reisz, R.R., Sues, H.D.: The “feathers” of Longisquama. Nature. 408, 428 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Assefa, S., Xia, F., Vlasov, Y.A.: Reinventing germanium avalanche photodetector for nanophotonic on-chip optical interconnects. Nature. 464, 80–84 (2010)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Malin, M.C., Edgett, K.S., Posiolova, L.V., McColley, S.M., Dobrea, E.Z.N.: Present-day impact cratering rate and contemporary gully activity on Mars. Science. 314, 1573–1577 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bécherrawy, T.: Mechanical and Electromagnetic Vibrations and Waves. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ (2012)

An edited book

D’Onofrio, M., Burigana, C. eds: Questions of Modern Cosmology: Galileo’s Legacy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Bühler, C., Pelka, B.: Empowerment by Digital Media of People with Disabilities. In: Miesenberger, K., Fels, D., Archambault, D., Peňáz, P., and Zagler, W. (eds.) Computers Helping People with Special Needs: 14th International Conference, ICCHP 2014, Paris, France, July 9-11, 2014, Proceedings, Part I. pp. 17–24. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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.: 3D Printer Builds Homes From Mud In Impoverished Areas, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printer-uses-mud-natural-fibers-make-homes-impoverished-areas/

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: VA Student Financial Aid: Actions Needed to Reduce Overlap in Approval Activities. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2007)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cross, A.: Tinkering in k-12: an exploratory mixed methods study of makerspaces in schools as an application of constructivist learning, (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

Hubbard, B.: An Online Purveyor of Polygamous Bliss, (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