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

Brower, A.V.Z. Comment on “Molecular Phylogenies Link Rates of Evolution and Speciation” (II). Science 2004, 303, 173; author reply 173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grandi, P.; Palumbo, G.G.C. Jet and Accretion-Disk Emission Untangled in 3C 273. Science 2004, 306, 998–1002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Silvarolla, M.B.; Mazzafera, P.; Fazuoli, L.C. Plant Biochemistry: A Naturally Decaffeinated Arabica Coffee. Nature 2004, 429, 826.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, T.; Shen, H.; Dong, W.; Qu, X.; Liu, Q.; Du, J. Antitumor Effects and Molecular Mechanisms of Figitumumab, a Humanized Monoclonal Antibody to IGF-1 Receptor, in Esophageal Carcinoma. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6855.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raymond, S.U. Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2013; ISBN 9781118654859.

An edited book

Controlled Pulmonary Drug Delivery; Smyth, H.D.C., Hickey, A.J., Eds.; Advances in Delivery Science and Technology; 1st ed.; Springer: New York, NY, 2011; ISBN 9781441997449.

A chapter in an edited book

Kerényi, J.; Putsay, M. LAND USE MAP FROM ASTER IMAGES AND WATER MASK ON MODIS IMAGES. In Transboundary Floods: Reducing Risks Through Flood Management; Marsalek, J., Stancalie, G., Balint, G., Eds.; Nato Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2006; pp. 45–55 ISBN 9781402049002.

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

Carpineti, A. A Moderate Solar Storm Is Hitting Earth As We Speak (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 NASA Procurement: Approach to Sharing Risk Under Certain Research and Development Contracts Is Starting to Change; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1992;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Thompson, P. An Exploratory Study of Work-Related Imagined Interactions with Real-Life Coworkers. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA, 2012.

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, C. Reshooting J. R., This Time on Home Territory. New York Times 2012, A22A.

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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