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]

Koen, D., “Nuts and Bolts,” Nature, Vol. 425, No. 6958, 2003, p. 644.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yang, W. Y., and Gruebele, M., “Folding at the Speed Limit,” Nature, Vol. 423, No. 6936, 2003, pp. 193–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Aitken, R. J., Koopman, P., and Lewis, S. E. M., “Seeds of Concern,” Nature, Vol. 432, No. 7013, 2004, pp. 48–52.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Tanaka, K., Mukae, N., Dewar, H., van Breugel, M., James, E. K., Prescott, A. R., Antony, C., and Tanaka, T. U., “Molecular Mechanisms of Kinetochore Capture by Spindle Microtubules,” Nature, Vol. 434, No. 7036, 2005, pp. 987–994.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Reiss, E., Shadomy, H. J., and Lyon, G. M., III, “Fundamental Medical Mycology,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

König, T., Debus, M., and Tsebelis, G., Eds., “Reform Processes and Policy Change: Veto Players and Decision-Making in Modern Democracies,” Springer, New York, NY, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ikegami, Y., Ito, K., Ishii, H., and Ohkura, M., “Development of a Tracking Sound Game for Exercise Support of Visually Impaired,” Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information: Symposium on Human Interface 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part II, edited by G. Salvendy and M. J. Smith, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 31–35.

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]

Fang, J., “Researcher Stumbles Across Oldest Snake Fossils Ever Found In Museum,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Jan 28 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/four-new-species-identified-oldest-snake-fossils-ever-discovered/

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, “Reported Y2K Status of the 21 Largest U.S. Cities,” AIMD-99-246R, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, July 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bryan, J. D., “Team Development Social Networking and Its Impact on the Encouragement of Spiritual Leadership,” Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2009.

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]

Walsh, M. W., “New York Investigates Insurer Payments to Banks,” New York Times, May 22 2012, 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
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