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]

Martin, E. E. “Earth Science: Ocean Circulation and Rapid Climate Change.” Nature, Vol. 517, No. 7532, 2015, pp. 30–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bagnall, M. W., and McLean, D. L. “Modular Organization of Axial Microcircuits in Zebrafish.” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 343, No. 6167, 2014, pp. 197–200.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Young, K. V., Brodie, E. D., Jr, and Brodie, E. D., 3rd. “How the Horned Lizard Got Its Horns.” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 304, No. 5667, 2004, p. 65.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Geijsen, N., Uings, I. J., Pals, C., Armstrong, J., McKinnon, M., Raaijmakers, J. A., Lammers, J. W., Koenderman, L., and Coffer, P. J. “Cytokine-Specific Transcriptional Regulation through an IL-5Ralpha Interacting Protein.” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 293, No. 5532, 2001, pp. 1136–1138.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Fell, G. J. Decoding the IT Value Problem. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Schein, M., and Rogers, P. N., Eds. Chirurgia Addominale d’urgenza: Il Buon Senso Di Schein: Guida Pratica per Sopravvivere Nella Trincea Delle Urgenze Chirurgiche. Springer, Milano, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Horita, M. When an Electronic Citizen Forum Works and When Not: An Organisational Analysis of the Mitaka Master Plan Process. In Innovations in Collaborative Urban Regeneration (M. Horita and H. Koizumi, eds.), Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2009, pp. 53–66.

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. Girls Are Put Off Science Because STEM Toys Are Branded As Boy’s Toys, Research Says. IFLScience. Accessed Oct. 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. Space Transportation: Progress of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program. Publication T-NSIAD-99-243. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Arnold, J. K. An Ecological Model for Health Policy Review: The Integration of New Institutional and Public Choice Theory for Public Policy Assessment. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ, 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]

Burghardt, L. F. “The Legacies They Left.” New York Times, Jan 01, 2006, p. 14LI6.

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

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