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]

Hall, A., “Virology. Src Launches Vaccinia,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 306, No. 5693, 2004, pp. 65–67.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vance, V., and Vaucheret, H., “RNA Silencing in Plants--Defense and Counterdefense,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 292, No. 5525, 2001, pp. 2277–2280.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Grottoli, A. G., Rodrigues, L. J., and Palardy, J. E., “Heterotrophic Plasticity and Resilience in Bleached Corals,” Nature, Vol. 440, No. 7088, 2006, pp. 1186–1189.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Daniels, M. J., Wang, Y., Lee, M., and Venkitaraman, A. R., “Abnormal Cytokinesis in Cells Deficient in the Breast Cancer Susceptibility Protein BRCA2,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 306, No. 5697, 2004, pp. 876–879.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Haginomori, E., Koshiduka, T., Arai, J., and Ikeda, H., “Power System Transient Analysis,” John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Nguyen, N. T., Ed., “Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence IX,” Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Scott, K., “Problem or Paradox: Teaching the Catholic Religion in Catholic Schools,” Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools, edited by M. T. Buchanan and A.-M. Gellel, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015, pp. 47–60.

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]

Andrews, R., “Scientists Discover Plants Have ‘Brains’ That Determine When They Grow,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Jun 07 2017. Retrieved 30 October 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, “Observations of the Test of the Simplifed Method for Determining Eligibility of Persons for Adult Public Assistance Programs,” B-164032(3), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, August 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Reynolds, P. R., “Midkine (MK) Regulates Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling During Hypoxia,” Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2004.

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]

Mcmasters, K., “The Nuclear Neighborhood,” New York Times, Nov 12 2006, p. LI15.

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