How to format your references using the Journal of Automated Reasoning citation style

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

Blaser, H.-U.: Chemistry. A golden boost to an old reaction. Science. 313, 312–313 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Campins, H., Comfort, C.M.: Solar system: Evaporating asteroid. Nature. 505, 487–488 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, Z., Gauthier, D.J., Boyd, R.W.: Stored light in an optical fiber via stimulated Brillouin scattering. Science. 318, 1748–1750 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Skop, A.R., Liu, H., Yates, J., 3rd, Meyer, B.J., Heald, R.: Dissection of the mammalian midbody proteome reveals conserved cytokinesis mechanisms. Science. 305, 61–66 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gros, D., Lannoo, K.: The Euro Capital Market. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2004)

An edited book

Corradini, A., Klin, B., Cîrstea, C. eds: Algebra and Coalgebra in Computer Science: 4th International Conference, CALCO 2011, Winchester, UK, August 30 – September 2, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Neber, H., Neuhaus, B.J.: Creativity and Problem-Based Learning (PBL): A Neglected Relation. In: Tan, A.-G. (ed.) Creativity, Talent and Excellence. pp. 43–56. Springer, Singapore (2013)

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 Automated Reasoning.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: Scientists Produce The Most Detailed Simulation Of The Universe Yet, https://www.iflscience.com/space/most-detailed-simulation-universe-yet/

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

Government Accountability Office: FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1991)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garbarini, L.: Comparison of the Completion Pathways of Four Categories of Doctoral Students from a Midwestern University, (2017)

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

Kelly, C.: ‘Cowboy Stuntman’ Was an Olympic Medalist, Too, (2013)

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 Automated Reasoning
Abbreviation	J. Automat. Reason.
ISSN (print)	0168-7433
ISSN (online)	1573-0670
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computational Theory and Mathematics Software