How to format your references using the Autonomous Robots citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Autonomous Robots. 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

Brooks, T. M. (2014). Conservation: Mind the gaps. Nature, 516(7531), 336–337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robbins, D. W., & Hartwig, J. F. (2011). A simple, multidimensional approach to high-throughput discovery of catalytic reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6048), 1423–1427.

A journal article with 3 authors

Surdutovich, E., Yakubovich, A. V., & Solov’yov, A. V. (2013). Biodamage via shock waves initiated by irradiation with ions. Scientific reports, 3, 1289.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Cassidy, C., Singh, V., Grammatikopoulos, P., Djurabekova, F., Nordlund, K., & Sowwan, M. (2013). Inoculation of silicon nanoparticles with silver atoms. Scientific reports, 3, 3083.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimon, R. (2013). Enterprise Performance Management Done Right. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ocampo-Martinez, C., & Negenborn, R. R. (Eds.). (2015). Transport of Water versus Transport over Water: Exploring the Dynamic Interplay of Transport and Water (Vol. 58). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Eide, A. H., & Loeb, M. (2016). Counting Disabled People: Historical Perspectives and the Challenges of Disability Statistics. In S. Grech & K. Soldatic (Eds.), Disability in the Global South: The Critical Handbook (pp. 51–68). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Autonomous Robots.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, July 16). Once Again, Scientists Conclude That There’s No Evidence That Homeopathy Works. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/there-enough-evidence-practise-homeopathy-alongside-medicine/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2015). Space Situational Awareness: Status of Efforts and Planned Budgets (No. GAO-16-6R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Denney, V. P. (2014). Achieving a Competitive Advantage through Ethical Business Practices: An Ethnographical Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Williams, J. (2016, November 18). ‘The Chosen’ at 50. New York Times, p. BR4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Brooks 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brooks 2014; Robbins and Hartwig 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Robbins and Hartwig 2011)
Three or more authors: (Cassidy et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Autonomous Robots
Abbreviation	Auton. Robots
ISSN (print)	0929-5593
ISSN (online)	1573-7527
Scope	Artificial Intelligence