How to format your references using the Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments. 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

Hogan CJ (2002) Cosmology. The beginning of time. Science 295:2223–2225

A journal article with 2 authors

Göpfert MC, Robert D (2001) Biomechanics. Turning the key on Drosophila audition. Nature 411:908

A journal article with 3 authors

Singh PK, Hopwood J, Sonkusale S (2014) Metamaterials for remote generation of spatially controllable two dimensional array of microplasma. Sci Rep 4:5964

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Baba H, Aziz F, Kaifu Y, et al (2003) Homo erectus calvarium from the Pleistocene of Java. Science 299:1384–1388

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sofronas A (2012) Case Histories in Vibration Analysis and Metal Fatigue for the Practicing Engineer. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Badonnel R, Koch R, Pras A, et al (2016) Management and Security in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: 10th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2016, Munich, Germany, June 20-23, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Udovyk O (2006) GIS FOR INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. In: Hlavinek P, Kukharchyk T, Marsalek J, Mahrikova I (eds) Integrated Urban Water Resources Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 35–42

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 Reliable Intelligent Environments.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Capture Stunning “Mini Supernova” Explosion. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-capture-stunning-mini-supernova-explosion/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2005) Survey of Workforce Investment Board Directors on the Use of Individual Training Accounts, an E-supplement to GAO-05-650. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ma Y (2013) Vesicular Stomatitis Virus as a Vector to Deliver Virus-Like Particles of Human Norovirus: A New Live Vectored Vaccine for Human Norovirus. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Mark ME (2012) Prom Night. New York Times SR7

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 Reliable Intelligent Environments
Abbreviation	J. Reliab. Intell. Environ.
ISSN (print)	2199-4668
ISSN (online)	2199-4676
Scope