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

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

Grotzinger, J. P., “Exploring Martian Habitability. Habitability, Taphonomy, and the Search for Organic Carbon on Mars. Introduction,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 343, No. 6169, 2014, pp. 386–387.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Meharg, A. A., and Killham, K., “Environment: A Pre-Industrial Source of Dioxins and Furans,” Nature, Vol. 421, No. 6926, 2003, pp. 909–910.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Min, S.-K., Zhang, X., and Zwiers, F., “Human-Induced Arctic Moistening,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 320, No. 5875, 2008, pp. 518–520.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Yooseph, S., Nealson, K. H., Rusch, D. B., McCrow, J. P., Dupont, C. L., Kim, M., Johnson, J., Montgomery, R., Ferriera, S., Beeson, K., Williamson, S. J., Tovchigrechko, A., Allen, A. E., Zeigler, L. A., Sutton, G., Eisenstadt, E., Rogers, Y.-H., Friedman, R., Frazier, M., and Venter, J. C., “Genomic and Functional Adaptation in Surface Ocean Planktonic Prokaryotes,” Nature, Vol. 468, No. 7320, 2010, pp. 60–66.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Moir, I., and Seabridge, A. G., “Military Avionics Systems,” John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Zaphiris, P., and Ioannou, A., Eds., “Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Technology-Rich Environments for Learning and Collaboration: First International Conference, LCT 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part II,” Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Werth, G., Gheorghe, V. N., and Major, F. G., “Microwave Spectroscopy,” Charged Particle Traps II: Applications, edited by V. N. Gheorghe and F. G. Major, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 85–128.

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 Information Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Hale, T., “Why Do Some People Have A Tiny Extra Hole In Their Ear?,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Nov 21 2016. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-do-some-people-have-a-tiny-extra-hole-in-their-ear/

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, “Federal Research: Implementation of the Super Collider’s Cost and Schedule Control System,” RCED-92-242, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, July 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Proser, M., “Ingredients for Optimal Care: Exploring Factors Associated with Patient Quality Outcomes among Federally-Qualified Health Centers,” Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2015.

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]

Kelly, K., “Trump Has Stocks Up. Some Funds Are Leery,” New York Times, Mar 05 2017, p. B1.

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	Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
Abbreviation	J. Aerosp. Comput. Inf. Commun.
ISSN (online)	2327-3097
Scope