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

Cocroft, R. An Ecologist Marvels at Animals That Learn to Eavesdrop. Nature 2009, 460, 439.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rowe, C.; Healy, S.D. Evolution. Is Bigger Always Better? Science 2011, 333, 708–709.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gwynne, D.T.; Judge, K.A.; Kelly, C.D. Evidence for Male Allocation in Pipefish? Nature 2010, 466, E11; discussion E12.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kasahara, Y.; Ohnishi, T.; Mizukami, Y.; Tanaka, O.; Ma, S.; Sugii, K.; Kurita, N.; Tanaka, H.; Nasu, J.; Motome, Y.; et al. Majorana Quantization and Half-Integer Thermal Quantum Hall Effect in a Kitaev Spin Liquid. Nature 2018, 559, 227–231.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brook, M.V. Ultrasonic Inspection Technology Development and Search Unit Design; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2011; ISBN 9781118104781.

An edited book

Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking: 8th International Conference, NEW2AN and 1st Russian Conference on Smart Spaces, RuSMART 2008 St. Petersburg, Russia, September 3-5, 2008. Proceedings; Balandin, S., Moltchanov, D., Koucheryavy, Y., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 5174; ISBN 9783540854999.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, D.; Hassaneen-Mostafa, W.; Tsimpas, A. Overview, Measurement and Point-of-Care Testing of Platelet Function. In Anticoagulation and Hemostasis in Neurosurgery; Loftus, C.M., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 55–64 ISBN 9783319273259.

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. The Science Of Why Are Some People Attracted To Children Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/psychology-paedophile-why-are-some-people-attracted-children/ (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 Aviation Research: Information on FAA’s Research, Engineering, and Development Program; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Small, C.R. An Investigation on the Effect(s) of Different Modes of Intervention for Weight Management on HDL-Cholesterol and LDL-Cholesterol Production among United States Veterans. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

Hodara, S. You Can Just Put That Cookie Cutter Away. New York Times 2017, RE8.

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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