How to format your references using the Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing. 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

[1]

M. Eisenstein, Centenarians: Great expectations, Nature 492 (2012) S6-8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Engelberg-Kulka, R. Hazan, Microbiology. Cannibals defy starvation and avoid sporulation, Science 301 (2003) 467–468.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Kürner, A.S. Frangakis, W. Baumeister, Cryo-electron tomography reveals the cytoskeletal structure of Spiroplasma melliferum, Science 307 (2005) 436–438.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.H. Haering, A.-M. Farcas, P. Arumugam, J. Metson, K. Nasmyth, The cohesin ring concatenates sister DNA molecules, Nature 454 (2008) 297–301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Vanclef, The Wealth Code 2.0, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

N. Hardwick, M.L. Gullino, eds., Knowledge and Technology Transfer for Plant Pathology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G.M. King, A.B. Churnside, T.T. Perkins, A Precision Force Microscope for Biophysics, in: G.A. Shaw, B.C. Prorok, L.A. Starman (Eds.), MEMS and Nanotechnology, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Springer, New York, NY, 2013: pp. 31–36.

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 Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Here’s What Ariel Would Look Like If She Evolved In The Deep Ocean, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/heres-what-disney-princess-ariel-would-look-if-she-evolved-different-ocean/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Information Technology: VA and DOD Are Making Progress in Sharing Medical Information, but Are Far from Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Klein, Mississippian Space and Place: A Geographical Study of Archaeological Site Data in the American Bottom, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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

[1]

J. Branch, Standing Firm, N.H.L. Rejects C.T.E.’s Links to Concussions, New York Times (2016) B9.

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	Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
Abbreviation	Robot. Comput. Integr. Manuf.
ISSN (print)	0736-5845
Scope	Computer Science Applications Software Control and Systems Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering General Mathematics