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

Savage N (2013) Physiology: Beating stroke. Nature 493:S12-3

A journal article with 2 authors

Parker AR, Lawrence CR (2001) Water capture by a desert beetle. Nature 414:33–34

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuan N, Fu Z, Liu S (2014) Extracting climate memory using Fractional Integrated Statistical Model: a new perspective on climate prediction. Sci Rep 4:6577

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sohal VS, Zhang F, Yizhar O, Deisseroth K (2009) Parvalbumin neurons and gamma rhythms enhance cortical circuit performance. Nature 459:698–702

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cann AJ (2004) Mathe für Biologen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Schier F (2013) Laparoscopy in Children, 2nd ed. 2013. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Amann S, Beyer S, Kevic K, Gall H (2015) Software Mining Studies: Goals, Approaches, Artifacts, and Replicability. In: Meyer B, Nordio M (eds) Software Engineering: International Summer Schools, LASER 2013-2014, Elba, Italy, Revised Tutorial Lectures. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 121–158

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

Luntz S (2016) Sea Sponges Show The Way To Cancer Treatment With Fewer Side-Effects. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sea-sponges-show-the-way-to-cancer-treatment-with-fewer-sideeffects/. 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 (1990) Observations on Ohio’s Implementation of the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986. 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

Schlumbrecht CE (2015) Do Negative Experiences Influence Substance Use in Adolescent Males and Females? 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

Kelly DA (2005) Fun if by Land and Fun if by Sea. New York Times 512

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