How to format your references using the Vehicular Communications citation style

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

[1]

B.A. Ponder, Cancer genetics, Nature 411 (2001) 336–341.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Margoliash, M.E. Hale, Neuroscience. Vertebrate vocalizations, Science 321 (2008) 347–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Taniguchi, J. Lu, Z.J. Huang, The spatial and temporal origin of chandelier cells in mouse neocortex, Science 339 (2013) 70–74.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Zhang, M. Fonovic, K. Suyama, M. Bogyo, M.P. Scott, Rab35 controls actin bundling by recruiting fascin as an effector protein, Science 325 (2009) 1250–1254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.R. Kricheldorf, Menschen und ihre Materialien, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

R. Asleson, Foundations of Ajax, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Nafz, H. Seebach, J.-P. Steghöfer, G. Anders, W. Reif, Constraining Self-organisation Through Corridors of Correct Behaviour: The Restore Invariant Approach, in: C. Müller-Schloer, H. Schmeck, T. Ungerer (Eds.), Organic Computing — A Paradigm Shift for Complex Systems, Springer, Basel, 2011: pp. 79–93.

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 Vehicular Communications.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, 120 Million-Year-Old Sea Turtle Found, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/oldest-known-fossil-sea-turtle-described/ (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, Rail Transit: FTA Programs Are Helping Address Transit Agencies’ Safety Challenges, but Improved Performance Goals and Measures Could Better Focus Efforts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.M. Nguyen, Valuation effects and external adjustment, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

D.E. Sanger, N. MacFARQUHAR, Trump’s Meeting With Russian Foreign Minister Comes at Awkward Time, New York Times (2017) A15.

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	Vehicular Communications
ISSN (print)	2214-2096
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