How to format your references using the Advances in Engineering Software citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Engineering Software. 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]

Young LJ. Being human: love: neuroscience reveals all. Nature 2009;457:148.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Miller GT, Pitnick S. Sperm-female coevolution in Drosophila. Science 2002;298:1230–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Diddams SA, Hollberg L, Mbele V. Molecular fingerprinting with the resolved modes of a femtosecond laser frequency comb. Nature 2007;445:627–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Carranza J, Alarcos S, Sánchez-Prieto CB, Valencia J, Mateos C. Disposable-soma senescence mediated by sexual selection in an ungulate. Nature 2004;432:215–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kukushkin A. Radio Wave Propagation in the Marine Boundary Layer. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Byham-Gray LD, Burrowes JD, Chertow GM, editors. Nutrition in Kidney Disease. 2nd ed. 2014. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Holbrow CH, Lloyd JN, Amato JC, Galvez E, Parks ME. Hard-Sphere Atoms. In: Lloyd JN, Amato JC, Galvez E, Parks ME, editors. Modern Introductory Physics, New York, NY: Springer; 2010, p. 109–49.

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 Advances in Engineering Software.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Genetic Study Reveals The Surprising Ancestry Of Ancient Egyptians. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/genetic-study-reveals-the-surprising-ancestry-of-ancient-egyptians/ (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. Head Start: Additional Information on Implementation of Transportation Regulations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Reller TL. Exploring differences in teacher attitudes and instructional strategies between traditional and block schedule high schools: A comparison of two small schools. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 2010.

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]

Kenigsberg B. Film Series. New York Times 2017:C25.

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	Advances in Engineering Software
Abbreviation	Adv. Eng. Softw.
ISSN (print)	0965-9978
Scope	Software General Engineering