How to format your references using the Journal of Automation and Information Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Automation and Information Sciences. 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

Vousden, K. H., Apoptosis. P53 and PUMA: A Deadly Duo, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 309, no. 5741, pp. 1685–86, September 9, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oswald, A. J. and Wu, S., Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-Being: Evidence from the U.S.A, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 327, no. 5965, pp. 576–79, January 29, 2010.

A journal article with 3 authors

Euston, D. R., Tatsuno, M. and McNaughton, B. L., Fast-Forward Playback of Recent Memory Sequences in Prefrontal Cortex during Sleep, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 318, no. 5853, pp. 1147–50, November 16, 2007.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Koss, M. J., Blecha, L., Bernhard, P., Hung, C.-L., Lu, J. R., Trakthenbrot, B., Treister, E., et al., A Population of Luminous Accreting Black Holes with Hidden Mergers, Nature, vol. 563, no. 7730, pp. 214–16, November 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Broekaert, J. A. C., Analytical Atomic Spectrometry with Flames and Plasmas, Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2005.

An edited book

Kröger, F., Temporal Logic and State Systems, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XII, 436 p. 34 illus, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Böttcher, B., Schilling, R. and Wang, J., Transformations of Feller Processes, in Lévy Matters III: Lévy-Type Processes: Construction, Approximation and Sample Path Properties, R. Schilling and J. Wang, Eds., Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 99–110, 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 Automation and Information Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., How We Caught A Black Hole Emitting Intense Wind, IFLScience, May 19, 2016.

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, Aviation Safety: FAA’s Safety Oversight System Is Effective but Could Benefit from Better Evaluation of Its Programs’ Performance, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-06-266T, Nov. 17, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mc Adams, A. N., School Psychologists’ Perceptions of Procedural Fidelity in Special Education, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

Brantley, B., Poetic Spark of a Combustible Iraq Veteran, New York Times, June 8, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Vousden, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Vousden, 2005; Oswald et al., 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Oswald et al., 2010)
Three or more authors: (Koss et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Automation and Information Sciences
ISSN (print)	1064-2315
ISSN (online)	2163-9337
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