How to format your references using the Journal of Aircraft citation style

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

Corless, C. L., “Medicine. Personalized Cancer Diagnostics,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 334, No. 6060, 2011, pp. 1217–1218.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Movassaghi, M., and Jacobsen, E. N., “Chemistry. The Simplest ‘Enzyme,’” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 298, No. 5600, 2002, pp. 1904–1905.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Stollewerk, A., Schoppmeier, M., and Damen, W. G. M., “Involvement of Notch and Delta Genes in Spider Segmentation,” Nature, Vol. 423, No. 6942, 2003, pp. 863–865.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Gil, L., Fuentes-Utrilla, P., Soto, A., Cervera, M. T., and Collada, C., “Phylogeography: English Elm Is a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Clone,” Nature, Vol. 431, No. 7012, 2004, p. 1053.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hase, Y., “Handbook of Power Systems Engineering with Power Electronics Applications,” John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Korbicz, J., and Kowal, M., Eds., “Intelligent Systems in Technical and Medical Diagnostics,” Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

El-Khawas, E., “A Changed Policy Environment for US Universities,” International Handbook of Educational Policy, edited by N. Bascia, A. Cumming, A. Datnow, K. Leithwood, and D. Livingstone, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005, pp. 101–114.

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 Aircraft.

Blog post

[1]

Fang, J., “Antarctic Ice Shelf Set To Collapse Within A Century,” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 17 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/colossal-antarctic-ice-shelf-thinning-top-and-bottom/

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, “Consumer Health Informatics: Emerging Issues,” AIMD-96-86, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, July 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Vande Voort, P. S., “A Phenomenological Exploration of Faculty Experiences Using Lecture Capture Systems,” Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2013.

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]

Tackett, M., “As Well-Educated Leave, Iowa’s Shift to G.O.P. Is a Matter of Degree,” New York Times, Oct 14 2017, p. A12.

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 Aircraft
Abbreviation	J. Aircr.
ISSN (print)	0021-8669
ISSN (online)	1533-3868
Scope	Aerospace Engineering