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

Davies, K.: Keep the directive that protects research animals. Nature. 521, 7 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Richardson, A.J., Schoeman, D.S.: Climate impact on plankton ecosystems in the Northeast Atlantic. Science. 305, 1609–1612 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, L., Lu, C., Tieu, K.: Atomistic simulation of tensile deformation behavior of ∑5 tilt grain boundaries in copper bicrystal. Sci. Rep. 4, 5919 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pashkin, Y.A., Yamamoto, T., Astafiev, O., Nakamura, Y., Averin, D.V., Tsai, J.S.: Quantum oscillations in two coupled charge qubits. Nature. 421, 823–826 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Billington, D.P.: Der Turm und die Brücke. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany (2013)

An edited book

Christianson, B., Švenda, P., Matyáš, V., Malcolm, J., Stajano, F., Anderson, J. eds: Security Protocols XXIII: 23rd International Workshop, Cambridge, UK, March 31 - April 2, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Krishnamoorthy, K., Park, M., Darbha, S., Pachter, M., Chandler, P.: Approximate Dynamic Programming Applied to UAV Perimeter Patrol. In: Fahroo, F., Wang, L.Y., and Yin, G. (eds.) Recent Advances in Research on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. pp. 119–146. 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

Andrew, E.: We’ve Created A New Way To Look At Your Vagina – It Might Just Save Your Life, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-ve-created-new-way-look-your-vagina-it-might-just-save-your-life/

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: ADP Acquisition: Air Force Logistics System Modernization Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1989)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Berkowitz, A.E.: Finding a Place for “Cacega Ayuwipi” within the Structure of American Indian Music and Dance Traditions, (2015)

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

Glanz, J.: When Millions Lost Power, Internet Hummed Along, (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
Scope

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