How to format your references using the Design Automation for Embedded Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Design Automation for Embedded Systems. 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

Betz AG (2010) Immunology. Have you seen your mother, baby. Science 330:1635–1636

A journal article with 2 authors

Nadeau RM, McEvilly TV (2004) Periodic pulsing of characteristic microearthquakes on the San Andreas fault. Science 303:220–222

A journal article with 3 authors

Verbeeck J, Tian H, Schattschneider P (2010) Production and application of electron vortex beams. Nature 467:301–304

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Qi H, Cannons JL, Klauschen F, et al (2008) SAP-controlled T-B cell interactions underlie germinal centre formation. Nature 455:764–769

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwedt G (2009) Chemie und Literatur - ein ungewöhnlicher Flirt. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Sicilia M-A, Kop C, Sartori F (2010) Ontology, Conceptualization and Epistemology for Information Systems, Software Engineering and Service Science: 4th International Workshop, ONTOSE 2010, held at CAiSE 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-8, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fazli S, Suk H-I, Lee S-W, Müller K-R (2015) Multifrequency Analysis of Brain-Computer Interfaces. In: Lee S-W, Bülthoff HH, Müller K-R (eds) Recent Progress in Brain and Cognitive Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 49–60

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 Design Automation for Embedded Systems.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) The Red Area Of This Map Represents Where 5% Of The World’s Entire Population Lives. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/red-and-blue-areas-map-represents-10-worlds-entire-population/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1985) Information on the Energy Information Administration’s Financial Reporting System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mueck K (2017) Physiology of the Invasive Apple Snail, Pomacea maculata (Perry, 1810), in Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Greenhouse L (2006) The Kennedy Factor On the Roberts Court. New York Times 42

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	Design Automation for Embedded Systems
Abbreviation	Des. Autom. Embed. Syst.
ISSN (print)	0929-5585
ISSN (online)	1572-8080
Scope	Hardware and Architecture Software