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

Nusse, R. 2015. Cell signalling: Disarming Wnt. Nature 519(7542): 163–164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lu, T.T., and Cyster, J.G. 2002. Integrin-mediated long-term B cell retention in the splenic marginal zone. Science 297(5580): 409–412.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ye, K., Malinina, L., and Patel, D.J. 2003. Recognition of small interfering RNA by a viral suppressor of RNA silencing. Nature 426(6968): 874–878.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cordaux, R., Deepa, E., Vishwanathan, H., and Stoneking, M. 2004. Genetic evidence for the demic diffusion of agriculture to India. Science 304(5674): 1125.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang, J.-J. 2014. Hydraulic Fracturing in Earth-Rock Fill DAMS. John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Cooper, G. (Editor). 2007. Therapeutic Uses of Botulinum Toxin. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwille, P., and Ries, J. 2011. Principles and Applications of Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS). In Biophotonics: Spectroscopy, Imaging, Sensing, and Manipulation. Edited by B.D. Bartolo and J. Collins. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. pp. 63–85.

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. 2014, September 5. Scientists Create Simple Artificial ‘Cell’ Capable Of Spontaneous Movement. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-create-simple-artificial-cell-capable-spontaneous-movement/ [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. Land Management Systems: Status of BLM’s Actions to Improve Information Technology Management. 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

Alzaaq, A.Y. 2017. Arabic adaptation of loanwords: An empirical examination of pharyngealization and vowel epenthesis. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kristof, N.D. 2011, January 27. Tussling Over Jesus. New York Times: A31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nusse 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lu and Cyster 2002; Nusse 2015).

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

Two authors: (Lu and Cyster 2002)
Three or more authors: (Cordaux et al. 2004)

About the journal

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