How to format your references using the Advanced Engineering Informatics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Engineering Informatics. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

T. Chiang, Catching crumbs from the table. In the face of metahuman science, humans have become metascientists, Nature 405 (2000) 517.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H. Kuwayama, S. Ishida, Biological soliton in multicellular movement, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2272.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Khan, H. Jain, K.V. Adarsh, Role of Ge:As ratio in controlling the light-induced response of a-Ge(x)As(35-x)Se65 thin films, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4029.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.A. Nobrega, I. Ovcharenko, V. Afzal, E.M. Rubin, Scanning human gene deserts for long-range enhancers, Science 302 (2003) 413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Johnson, Small Animal Pathology for Veterinary Technicians, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

H.L. McQuistion, W.E. Sowers, J.M. Ranz, J.M. Feldman, eds., Handbook of Community Psychiatry, Springer, New York, NY, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. Behrendt, Courteous Sensors - Rules and Methodology, in: B. Berendt, T. Engel, D. Ikonomou, D. Le Métayer, S. Schiffner (Eds.), Privacy Technologies and Policy: Third Annual Privacy Forum, APF 2015, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, October 7-8, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 95–103.

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 Advanced Engineering Informatics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, New Species Of Human Discovered In South Africa, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-human-ancestor-likely-ritualistically-disposed-its-dead/ (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, [Comments on Referral of NASA Subcontractors’ Claims to Congress], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M. Stevenson, A change for the future: Presidents and deans real and ideal leadership practices at community and junior colleges in Mississippi, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 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]

M.W. Walsh, Sanford Sigoloff, 80, Expert at Turnarounds, New York Times (2011) B14.

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	Advanced Engineering Informatics
Abbreviation	Adv. Eng. Inform.
ISSN (print)	1474-0346
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Information Systems