How to format your references using the ROBOMECH Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ROBOMECH Journal. 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

Triendl R (2002) Attractive forces in Asia. Nature 418:4–5

A journal article with 2 authors

Han Y, Grier DG (2003) Fluid dynamics: Vortex rings in a constant electric field. Nature 424:267–268

A journal article with 3 authors

Zeyl C, Vanderford T, Carter M (2003) An evolutionary advantage of haploidy in large yeast populations. Science 299:555–558

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yang B, Guo Q, Tremain B, et al (2018) Ideal Weyl points and helicoid surface states in artificial photonic crystal structures. Science 359:1013–1016

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bobrow J, Fisher S, Mondragon-Gilmore J, et al (2009) CliffsNotes® CSET®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Rebeiz CA, Benning C, Bohnert HJ, et al (2010) The Chloroplast: Basics and Applications. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Rosas A, Bastir M, Martínez-maza C, et al (2006) Inquiries into Neanderthal craniofacial development and evolution: “accretion” versus “organismic” models. In: Hublin J-J, Harvati K, Harrison T (eds) Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 37–69

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 ROBOMECH Journal.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Launch. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-spacexs-falcon9-rocket-launch/. 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 (2009) Federal Transit Administration: Progress and Challenges in Implementing and Evaluating the Job Access and Reverse Commute Program. 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

Tsai H-Y (2006) Elucidating the Role of Protein Cofactors in RNA Catalysis Using Ribonuclease P as the Model System. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University

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

Qiu L (2017) On What He Really Said, and Whom He Is Blaming for It. New York Times A13

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	ROBOMECH Journal
Abbreviation	ROBOMECH J.
ISSN (online)	2197-4225
Scope