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

Gilbert N (2011) Local benefits: The seeds of an economy. Nature 474:S18-9

A journal article with 2 authors

Hilf RJC, Dutzler R (2009) Structure of a potentially open state of a proton-activated pentameric ligand-gated ion channel. Nature 457:115–118

A journal article with 3 authors

Talkington MWT, Siuzdak G, Williamson JR (2005) An assembly landscape for the 30S ribosomal subunit. Nature 438:628–632

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Meehl GA, Arblaster JM, Matthes K, et al (2009) Amplifying the Pacific climate system response to a small 11-year solar cycle forcing. Science 325:1114–1118

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cox I, Gaudard MA, Stephens ML (2016) Visual Six Sigma, Second Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Oberlack M, Khujadze G, Günther S, et al (2007) Progress in Turbulence II: Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2005. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Joro T, Korhonen PJ (2015) Comparison of Data Envelopment Analysis and Multiple Objective Linear Programming. In: Korhonen PJ (ed) Extension of Data Envelopment Analysis with Preference Information: Value Efficiency. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 55–64

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

Luntz S (2015) Arctic Seabeds A Growing Carbon Sink. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/arctic-seabeds-growing-carbon-sink/. 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 (2009) No Child Left Behind Act: Enhancements in the Department of Education’s Review Process Could Improve State Academic Assessments. 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

LeBlanc L (2009) Group home placement for children with serious emotional disturbance: A grant proposal project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Davis JH, Shear MD (2017) Team of Rivals At the Lectern For a President. New York Times A1

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