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]

J. Zaanen, High-temperature superconductivity. Stripes defeat the Fermi liquid, Nature 404 (2000) 714–715.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K. Pahnke, R. Zahn, Southern Hemisphere water mass conversion linked with North Atlantic climate variability, Science 307 (2005) 1741–1746.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Ji, M. Odelius, K.J. Gaffney, Large angular jump mechanism observed for hydrogen bond exchange in aqueous perchlorate solution, Science 328 (2010) 1003–1005.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W.-L. Lee, S. Watauchi, V.L. Miller, R.J. Cava, N.P. Ong, Dissipationless anomalous Hall current in the ferromagnetic spinel CuCr2Se4-xBrx, Science 303 (2004) 1647–1649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.K. Parashar, Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Synthesis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, United Kingdom, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

W. Ho, Optimal Production Planning for PCB Assembly, Springer, London, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. Bishop, T.H. Grubesic, Policy, in: T.H. Grubesic (Ed.), Geographic Information: Organization, Access, and Use, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 53–77.

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, Newly Discovered Stars Reveal The Fascinating Evolution Of The Milky Way, IFLScience (2016).

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, Highways and Environment: Transportation Agencies Are Acting to Involve Others in Planning and Environmental Decisions, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T. Sarachana, Investigation of post-transcriptional gene regulatory networks associated with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) by miRNA expression profiling of lymphoblastoid cell lines, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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]

B. Barnes, In the Footsteps of Marvel, New York Times (2012) B1.

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