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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Murzin, A.G. Biochemistry. DNA Building Block Reinvented. Science 2002, 297, 61–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Muijres, F.T.; Dickinson, M.H. Bird Flight: Fly with a Little Flap from Your Friends. Nature 2014, 505, 295–296.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shim, S.H.; Duffy, T.S.; Shen, G. The Post-Spinel Transformation in Mg2SiO4 and Its Relation to the 660-Km Seismic Discontinuity. Nature 2001, 411, 571–574.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Howard, D.J.; Marshall, J.L.; Braswell, W.E.; Coyne, J.A. Examining Evidence of Reproductive Isolation in Sockeye Salmon. Science 2001, 291, 1853.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barnes, B.K. Exercising Influence; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2015; ISBN 9781119158523.

An edited book

Sustainable Urban Environments: An Ecosystem Approach; van Bueren, E., van Bohemen, H., Itard, L., Visscher, H., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2012; ISBN 9789400712935.

A chapter in an edited book

Król, D.J.; Wymysłowski, A.; Allaf, K.N. Analysis of the Adhesion Work with a Molecular Modeling Method and a Wetting Angle Measurement. In Molecular Modeling and Multiscaling Issues for Electronic Material Applications: Volume 2; Wymyslowski, A., Iwamoto, N., Yuen, M., Fan, H., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 67–79 ISBN 9783319128610.

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

Hamilton, K. Dog Sniffs Out Thyroid Cancer In Urine Samples Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dog-sniffs-out-thyroid-cancer-urine-samples/ (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 Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Improve Security, but Additional Efforts Remain; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Laffitte, L. A Comparison of Pull-Out and Co-Teaching Models on the Reading Performance of Third through Fifth Grade Elementary Students with a Diagnosed Specific Learning Disability in Reading. 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

Smith, M. A Kansas Town Rallies for a Modest Lifeline: A Local Grocery Store. New York Times 2014, A10.

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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