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]

C. Herzfeld, How the change agent has changed, Nature 451 (2008) 403–404.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Z. Jin, J. Wang, PIN architecture for ultrasensitive organic thin film photoconductors, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5331.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Verschuren, K.R. Laird, B.F. Cumming, Rainfall and drought in equatorial east Africa during the past 1,100 years, Nature 403 (2000) 410–414.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.M. Okeoma, N. Lovsin, B.M. Peterlin, S.R. Ross, APOBEC3 inhibits mouse mammary tumour virus replication in vivo, Nature 445 (2007) 927–930.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety, Guidelines for Chemical Process Quantitative Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

D. Lea, G. Zavattaro, eds., Coordination Models and Languages: 10th International Conference, COORDINATION 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 4-6, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.M. Bućko, Microstructural Aspects of Ionic Conductivity in Nanocrystalline Zirconia, in: M. Aliofkhazraei, A.S.H. Makhlouf (Eds.), Handbook of Nanoelectrochemistry: Electrochemical Synthesis Methods, Properties, and Characterization Techniques, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 819–847.

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]

A. Carpineti, ESO Release Incredible View Of The Cat’s Paw Nebula, IFLScience (2017).

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, Comments on S. 881 and GAO Report on Small-Business Innovation Initiatives, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.E. Colna, Latitudinal Position and Trends of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and its Relationship with Upwelling in the Southern Caribbean Sea and Global Climate Indices, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 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.C. McKINLEY Jr., H. Alani, Man Who Pushed Passenger Who Died on Subway Tracks Is Acquitted, New York Times (2017) A19.

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