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]

P.J. Barnes, Medicine. Neutrophils find smoke attractive, Science 330 (2010) 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.Y.C. Cheung, M. Otto, Microbiology: Diverted on the way to memory, Nature 517 (2015) 28–29.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Peng, Z.-G. Song, S.-C. Jiao, Efficacy analysis of tyrosine kinase inhibitors on rare non-small cell lung cancer patients harboring complex EGFR mutations, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6104.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.W. Doyle, E.H. Stanley, D.G. Havlick, M.J. Kaiser, G. Steinbach, W.L. Graf, G.E. Galloway, J.A. Riggsbee, Environmental science. Aging infrastructure and ecosystem restoration, Science 319 (2008) 286–287.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.P. Abulencia, L. Theodore, Open-Ended Problems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

M. Yamaguchi, ed., Climate Change Mitigation: A Balanced Approach to Climate Change, Springer, London, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Hörmann, M. Herbst, C. Eschenbach, Water Relations at Different Scales, in: O. Fränzle, L. Kappen, H.-P. Blume, K. Dierssen (Eds.), Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape: Long-Term Research in the Bornhöved Lake District, Germany, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 101–117.

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]

E. Andrew, Humanity Is In The Existential Danger Zone, Study Confirms, IFLScience (2015).

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, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: Light Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 2001, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

O. Brown, Business and IT leaders’ behavioral affects on alignment and project outcome: A comparative leadership study, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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. Brantley, Stoppard for an Age of Uncertainty, New York Times (2017) AR16.

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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