How to format your references using the Drones citation style

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

Lee, V.M. Biomedicine. Tauists and Beta-Aptists United--Well Almost! Science 2001, 293, 1446–1447.

A journal article with 2 authors

Katsir, Y.; Marmur, A. Rate of Bubble Coalescence Following Quasi-Static Approach: Screening and Neutralization of the Electric Double Layer. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pauly, D.; Hilborn, R.; Branch, T.A. Fisheries: Does Catch Reflect Abundance? Nature 2013, 494, 303–306.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kuhr, S.; Alt, W.; Schrader, D.; Muller, M.; Gomer, V.; Meschede, D. Deterministic Delivery of a Single Atom. Science 2001, 293, 278–280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, W.; Pecht, M. IC Component Sockets; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005; ISBN 9780471648277.

An edited book

The Rhine; Knepper, T.P., Ed.; The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; Vol. 5L; ISBN 9783540293934.

A chapter in an edited book

Wu, T.; Chellappa, R. Age Invariant Face Verification with Relative Craniofacial Growth Model. In Computer Vision – ECCV 2012: 12th European Conference on Computer Vision, Florence, Italy, October 7-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part VI; Fitzgibbon, A., Lazebnik, S., Perona, P., Sato, Y., Schmid, C., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp. 58–71 ISBN 9783642337826.

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 Drones.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Six Things You Can Do With Coffee – After You’ve Finished Drinking It Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/six-things-you-can-do-coffee-after-you-ve-finished-drinking-it/ (accessed on 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 FAA Encountering Problems in Acquiring Major Automated Systems; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1990;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Al khuwaildi, H.A. Green Techniques in the Healthcare System. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2010.

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

Craig, S. Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties. New York Times 2016, A1.

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	Drones
Abbreviation	Drones
ISSN (online)	2504-446X
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