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

Perez DR (2012) Public health and biosecurity. H5N1 debates: hung up on the wrong questions. Science 335:799–801

A journal article with 2 authors

Sachdev S, Starykh OA (2000) Thermally fluctuating superconductors in two dimensions. Nature 405:322–325

A journal article with 3 authors

Royer DL, Berner RA, Park J (2007) Climate sensitivity constrained by CO2 concentrations over the past 420 million years. Nature 446:530–532

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Martín-Ponce E, Hernández-Betancor I, González-Reimers E, et al (2014) Prognostic value of physical function tests: hand grip strength and six-minute walking test in elderly hospitalized patients. Sci Rep 4:7530

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews GA (2015) Pesticides. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Alpert GP (2014) Police Pursuit Driving: Policy and Research. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Smagghe G, Mommaerts V, Hokkanen H, Menzler-Hokkanen I (2012) Multitrophic Interactions: The Entomovector Technology. In: Smagghe G, Diaz I (eds) Arthropod-Plant Interactions: Novel Insights and Approaches for IPM. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 127–157

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 (2014) 10 Of The Strangest Known Medical Conditions. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/10-strangest-known-medical-conditions/. 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 (1999) Federal Communications Commission: Wireless Radio Services--Compatibility with Enhanced 911 Emergency Calling Systems. 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

Lange AW (2006) Calcineurin/NFATc1/DSCR1 Pathway Function in Cardiac Valvuloseptal Development and Down Syndrome-Related Phenotypes. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Hodgman J (2017) Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman. New York Times MM18

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