How to format your references using the Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems. 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	Download the output style file
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

Triendl, R. 2002. Interaction required. Nature 415(6870): 7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zid, B.M., and O’Shea, E.K. 2014. Promoter sequences direct cytoplasmic localization and translation of mRNAs during starvation in yeast. Nature 514(7520): 117–121.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tatano, Y., Shimizu, T., and Tomioka, H. 2014. Unique macrophages different from M1/M2 macrophages inhibit T cell mitogenesis while upregulating Th17 polarization. Sci. Rep. 4: 4146.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Morello, A., Pla, J.J., Zwanenburg, F.A., Chan, K.W., Tan, K.Y., Huebl, H., Möttönen, M., Nugroho, C.D., Yang, C., van Donkelaar, J.A., Alves, A.D.C., Jamieson, D.N., Escott, C.C., Hollenberg, L.C.L., Clark, R.G., and Dzurak, A.S. 2010. Single-shot readout of an electron spin in silicon. Nature 467(7316): 687–691.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Piegorsch, W.W., and Bailer, A.J. 2005. Analyzing Environmental Data. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Braza, M., and Hourigan, K. (Editors). 2009. IUTAM Symposium on Unsteady Separated Flows and their Control: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium “Unsteady Separated Flows and their Control“, Corfu, Greece, 18–22 June 2007. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Lewis, H. 2012. Complying with Regulations. In Packaging for Sustainability. Edited by K. Verghese, H. Lewis, and L. Fitzpatrick. Springer, London. pp. 155–169.

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 Unmanned Vehicle Systems.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015, July 22. If We Are To Find Life Beyond Earth, We Need To Be Explorers, Not Hunters. IFLScience. [accessed 30 October 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. 2000. Environmental Protection Agency: Control of Air Pollution From New Motor Vehicles--Tier 2 Motor Vehicle Emissions Standards and Gasoline Sulfur Control Requirements. 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

Gemmer, J. 2012. Shape Selection in the non-Euclidean Model of Elasticity. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Novick, S.M. 2016, April 17. Where Po’ Boys Will Be Po’ Boys. New York Times: LI8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triendl 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Triendl 2002; Zid and O’Shea 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zid and O’Shea 2014)
Three or more authors: (Morello et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems
Abbreviation	J. Unmanned Veh. Syst.
ISSN (online)	2291-3467
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