How to format your references using the Journal of Aerospace Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Aerospace 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

Coyne, J. A. 2005. “Evolution. Ernst Mayr (1904-2005).” Science, 307 (5713): 1212–1213.

A journal article with 2 authors

Patel, A. G., and S. H. Kaufmann. 2010. “Cancer. Targeting bacteria to improve cancer therapy.” Science, 330 (6005): 766–767.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lai, Y.-T., D. Cascio, and T. O. Yeates. 2012. “Structure of a 16-nm cage designed by using protein oligomers.” Science, 336 (6085): 1129.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Du, J., F. Cheng, S. Wang, T. Zhang, and J. Chen. 2014. “M(salen)-derived nitrogen-doped M/C (M = Fe, Co, Ni) porous nanocomposites for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction.” Sci. Rep., 4: 4386.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris, M. 2011. Concise Dictionary of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

White, B., I. King, and P. Tsang (Eds.). 2011. Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Bigerna, S., C. A. Bollino, and S. Micheli. 2015. “EU Scenarios for a Sustainable RES Strategy.” The Sustainability of Renewable Energy in Europe, C. A. Bollino and S. Micheli, eds., 117–136. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Journal of Aerospace Engineering.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2015. “A Rope Test Could Save Us From Monkey Diseases.” IFLScience. IFLScience. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/rope-test-could-save-us-monkey-diseases/.

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. 1994. School-Age Children: Poverty and Diversity Challenge Schools Nationwide. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Quackenbush, C. M. 2010. “The Imaginal Stone: Stories of self and world.” Doctoral dissertation. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Poniewozik, J. 2016. “Harshing the Mellow of Angsty Hipsters.” New York Times, September 15, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coyne 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Coyne 2005; Patel and Kaufmann 2010).

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

Two authors: (Patel and Kaufmann 2010)
Three or more authors: (Du et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Aerospace Engineering
Abbreviation	J. Aerosp. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0893-1321
ISSN (online)	1943-5525
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering General Materials Science