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

Ball, P. 2015. Publishing: The journal that publishes no papers. Nature 526(7571): 146.

A journal article with 2 authors

Theler, D., and Allain, F.H.-T. 2015. Molecular biology: RNA modification does a regulatory two-step. Nature 518(7540): 492–493.

A journal article with 3 authors

Weiss, E., Kislev, M.E., and Hartmann, A. 2006. Anthropology. Autonomous cultivation before domestication. Science 312(5780): 1608–1610.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Olendorf, R., Rodd, F.H., Punzalan, D., Houde, A.E., Hurt, C., Reznick, D.N., and Hughes, K.A. 2006. Frequency-dependent survival in natural guppy populations. Nature 441(7093): 633–636.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sluga, H. 2011. Wittgenstein. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Prodi, L., Montalti, M., and Zaccheroni, N. (Editors). 2011. Luminescence Applied in Sensor Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Adelaar, A. 2016. Austronesians in Madagascar: A Critical Assessment of the Works of Paul Ottino and Philippe Beaujard. In Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World. Edited by G. Campbell. Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp. 77–112.

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

Davis, J. 2016, December 5. Chimpanzees Found To Recognize Butts In The Same Way They Recognize Faces. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimpanzees-found-to-recognize-butts-in-the-same-way-they-recognize-faces/ [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. 1988. Civil Agency Aircraft: Agencies’ Use of Certain Aircraft to Transport Passengers. 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

Pavuluri, V.K. 2014. Field Oriented Control of Induction Motors Based on DSP Controller. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Crow, K. 2002, November 3. Two Old Buildings Win Friends in High Places. New York Times: 147.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ball 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Theler and Allain 2015; Ball 2015).

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

Two authors: (Theler and Allain 2015)
Three or more authors: (Olendorf et al. 2006)

About the journal

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