How to format your references using the AIAA Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIAA Journal. 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 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]

Gibson, J. M., “Materials Science. Solving Amorphous Structures--Two Pairs Beat One,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 335, No. 6071, 2012, pp. 929–930.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Belcher, C. M., and McElwain, J. C., “Limits for Combustion in Low O2 Redefine Paleoatmospheric Predictions for the Mesozoic,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 321, No. 5893, 2008, pp. 1197–1200.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Garofalo, S., Maier, M. E., and di Pellegrino, G., “Mediofrontal Negativity Signals Unexpected Omission of Aversive Events,” Scientific reports, Vol. 4, 2014, p. 4816.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kwon, H.-J., Smith, W. C., Scharon, A. J., Hwang, S. H., Kurth, M. J., and Shen, B., “C-O Bond Formation by Polyketide Synthases,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 297, No. 5585, 2002, pp. 1327–1330.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Pachamanova, D. A., and Fabozzi, F. J., “Simulation and Optimization in Finance,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Yan, X., Ed., “Dan Shen (Salvia Miltiorrhiza) in Medicine: Volume 1. Biology and Chemistry,” Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rigo, E., “Citizens and Foreigners in the Enlarged Europe,” Spreading Democracy and the Rule of Law?: The Impact of EU Enlargement on the Rule of Law, Democracy and Constitutionalism in Post-Communist Legal Orders, edited by W. Sadurski, A. Czarnota, and M. Krygier, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006, pp. 97–119.

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 AIAA Journal.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton, K., “The Largest Living Thing On Earth Is Mostly Hidden From View,” IFLScience, IFLScience, May 11 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-largest-living-thing-on-earth-is-mostly-hidden-from-view/

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, “Telecommunications: State and Federal Actions to Curb Slamming and Cramming,” RCED-99-193, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, July 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Saurage-Altenloh, S. M., “The Measured Influence of Supplier CSR on Brand Performance Expectations in B2B Relationships,” Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2017.

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]

Macintyre, B., “The Fog of War,” New York Times, May 16 2017, p. BR12.

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	AIAA Journal
Abbreviation	AIAA J.
ISSN (print)	0001-1452
ISSN (online)	1533-385X
Scope	Aerospace Engineering