How to format your references using the Fuzzy Information and Engineering citation style

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

[1]

F. Mavilio, Gene therapies need new development models, Nature 490 (2012) 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Helbing, E. Pournaras, Society: Build digital democracy, Nature 527 (2015) 33–34.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.H. Wellman, P.L. Osterloff, U. Mohiuddin, Fragments of the earliest land plants, Nature 425 (2003) 282–285.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S.-J. Kim, M. Naruse, M. Aono, M. Ohtsu, M. Hara, Decision maker based on nanoscale photo-excitation transfer, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2370.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Lütolf-Carroll, Antti Pirnes, Withers LLP, From Innovation to Cash Flows, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

S. Attal, A. Joye, C.-A. Pillet, eds., Open Quantum Systems I: The Hamiltonian Approach, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Grünig, D. Morschett, Strategic planning of a domestic company as the starting point for going international, in: D. Morschett (Ed.), Developing International Strategies: Going and Being International for Medium-Sized Companies, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 65–87.

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 Fuzzy Information and Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Lonely Planets Have Crazier Orbits Than Worlds With Companions, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/lonely-planets-have-crazier-orbits-than-worlds-with-companions/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Forest Service: Status of Geographic Information System Acquisition, 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

[1]

S.A. Spillman, Is More Always Better: Comparing the Effects of Single and Multiple Learning Channels on Academic Performance, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2014.

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

[1]

L. Marx, Working Around the Clock, but Finding Time for Love, New York Times (2017) ST13.

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	Fuzzy Information and Engineering
Abbreviation	Fuzzy Inf. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1616-8658
Scope