How to format your references using the International Journal of Automotive Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Automotive Technology (IJAT). 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	Download the output style file
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

Makovicky, E. (2007). Comment on ‘Decagonal and quasi-crystalline tilings in medieval Islamic architecture’. Science, 318, 5855, 1383; author reply 1383.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nijman, S. M. B. and Friend, S. H. (2013). Cancer. Potential of the synthetic lethality principle. Science, 342, 6160, 809–811.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pendry, J. B. et al. (2006). Controlling electromagnetic fields. Science, 312, 5781, 1780–1782.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Ricci, M. T. et al. (2014). SCN1B gene variants in Brugada Syndrome: a study of 145 SCN5A-negative patients. Sci. Rep., 4, 6470.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johansen, G. A. and Jackson, P. (2005). Radioisotope Gauges for Industrial Process Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Geffert, V. et al. (eds) (2008). SOFSEM 2008: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 34th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Nový Smokovec, Slovakia, January 19-25, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

He, R. et al. (2014). Correntropy and Linear Representation. In Hu, B. et al. (eds), Robust Recognition via Information Theoretic Learning, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 45–60.

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 International Journal of Automotive Technology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015). How Long Would It Take To Fall Through The Center Of The Earth? IFLScience.

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 (1975). Need for More Effective Controls Over Computerized Payroll-Processing Operations. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vestergaard, E. V. (2015). The shadow in Latvian mythological legends: A Jungian perspective. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Detrick, B. (2016). The Vnyl. New York Times, D8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Makovicky, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Makovicky, 2007; Nijman and Friend, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Nijman and Friend, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ricci et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Automotive Technology
ISSN (print)	1229-9138
ISSN (online)	1976-3832
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