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

Kroto HW (2010) Working at the coal face. Nature 467:S13

A journal article with 2 authors

Boehm M, Slack F (2005) A developmental timing microRNA and its target regulate life span in C. elegans. Science 310:1954–1957

A journal article with 3 authors

Lovejoy CO, Heiple KG, Meindl RS (2001) Palaeoanthropology: Did our ancestors knuckle-walk? Nature 410:325–326

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ozawa S, Murakami M, Kaidzu M, et al (2002) Detection and monitoring of ongoing aseismic slip in the Tokai region, central Japan. Science 298:1009–1012

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg MA, Froum SJ (2012) The Dentist’s Drug and Prescription Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Antoniadis I, Ghilencea D (2014) Supersymmetry After the Higgs Discovery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Wohlers TE, Bernier LL (2016) United States. In: Bernier LL (ed) Setting Sail into the Age of Digital Local Government: Trends and Best Practices. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 39–56

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 (2014) Turing Solves Mystery Of How We Get Fingers And Toes 60 Years After Death. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/turing-solves-mystery-how-we-get-fingers-and-toes-60-years-after-death/. 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 (2011) Higher Education: Use of New Data Could Help Improve Oversight of Distance Education. 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

Hebbard MT (2015) A Depositional Analysis of the Reeves Sand in Beauregard and Allen Parishes, Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Ortved J (2017) Model Makes A Stand With Feminist Art. New York Times D5

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