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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Jonietz, E. (2011). Designing smarter cancer prevention trials. Nature, 471(7339), S20-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sherkow, J. S., & Greely, H. T. (2013). Genomics. What if extinction is not forever? Science (New York, N.Y.), 340(6128), 32–33.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cello, J., Paul, A. V., & Wimmer, E. (2002). Chemical synthesis of poliovirus cDNA: generation of infectious virus in the absence of natural template. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5583), 1016–1018.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Jackson, R. B., Berthrong, S. T., Cook, C. W., Jobbágy, E. G., & McCulley, R. L. (2004). Comment on “A reservoir of nitrate beneath desert soils.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5667), 51; author reply 51.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lütolf-Carroll, C., Antti Pirnes, & Withers LLP. (2009). From Innovation to Cash Flows. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ng, W. S., Ooi, B.-C., Ouksel, A. M., & Sartori, C. (Eds.). (2005). Databases, Information Systems, and Peer-to-Peer Computing: Second International Workshop, DBISP2P 2004, Toronto, Canada, August 29-30, 2004, Revised Selected Papers (Vol. 3367). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Guarnieri, F. A. (2015). Biomechanics of Subtractive Surgery: From ALK to LASIK. In F. A. Guarnieri (Ed.), Corneal Biomechanics and Refractive Surgery (pp. 57–71). New York, NY: Springer.

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

Hale, T. (2017, January 26). What Happens If You Put Red Hot Steel On A Frozen Lake? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-happens-if-you-put-red-hot-steel-on-a-frozen-lake/. 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. (1976). An Experimental Computer Output Microfilm Service Center (No. 092324). 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

Li, K. (2010). An explicative model of leisure-time physical activities among church-going African Americans in Indianapolis (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Grynbaum, M. M. (2017, June 19). Kelly Presses Conspiracy Theorist in Edited Interview. New York Times, p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jonietz 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Jonietz 2011; Sherkow and Greely 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sherkow and Greely 2013)
Three or more authors: (Jackson et al. 2004)

About the journal

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