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

Breaker RR (2008) Complex riboswitches. Science 319:1795–1797

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu L-Q, Dickman JD (2012) Neural correlates of a magnetic sense. Science 336:1054–1057

A journal article with 3 authors

Cincotta RP, Wisnewski J, Engelman R (2000) Human population in the biodiversity hotspots. Nature 404:990–992

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hanada K, Kumagai K, Yasuda S, et al (2003) Molecular machinery for non-vesicular trafficking of ceramide. Nature 426:803–809

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malcolm D (2012) The British and Irish Short Story Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hallinger P (2007) A Problem-based Approach for Management Education: Preparing Managers for Action. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Amiruzzaman M, Abdullah-Al-Wadud M, Chung Y (2010) An Analysis of Syndrome Coding. In: Bandyopadhyay SK, Adi W, Kim T-H, Xiao Y (eds) Information Security and Assurance: 4th International Conference, ISA 2010, Miyazaki, Japan, June 23-25, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 37–50

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

Andrews R (2017) Women In STEM Around The World: Where We’ve Improved, And Where We Can Do Better. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-in-stem-around-the-world-where-weve-improved-and-where-we-can-do-better/. 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 (1992) Natural Gas Pipelines: Greater Use of Instrumented Inspection Technology Can Improve Safety. 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

Maddox AL (2017) Secondary Structure Analysis of the C-Terminus of Gα-Interacting Vesicle Associated Protein Using Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy. 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

Prochnik G (2013) I’m Thinking. Please. Be Quiet. New York Times SR4

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

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