How to format your references using the Eksploatacja i Niezawodnosc - Maintenance and Reliability citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eksploatacja i Niezawodnosc - Maintenance and Reliability. 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

Corliss J. Exercise: Powering up. Nature 2012; 485(7400): S62-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Willis K J, Birks H J B. What is natural? The need for a long-term perspective in biodiversity conservation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2006; 314(5803): 1261–1265.

A journal article with 3 authors

Osta M A, Christophides G K, Kafatos F C. Effects of mosquito genes on Plasmodium development. Science (New York, N.Y.) 2004; 303(5666): 2030–2032.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wolfe A M, Jorgenson R A, Robishaw T et al. An 84-microG magnetic field in a galaxy at redshift z = 0.692. Nature 2008; 455(7213): 638–640.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Woolf V. The Years. Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: 2012.

An edited book

Liu Q. TA-Q-BIN: Service Excellence and Innovation in Urban Logistics. 1st ed. 2015. Singapore, Springer: 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Martin A J. Are These Testing Times, or Is It a Time to Test? Considering the Place of Tests in Students’ Academic Development. In Proctor H, Brownlee P, Freebody P (eds): Controversies in Education: Orthodoxy and Heresy in Policy and Practice, Cham, Springer International Publishing: 2015: 55–62.

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 Eksploatacja i Niezawodnosc - Maintenance and Reliability.

Blog post

50 Science Misconceptions. [https://www.iflscience.com/brain/watch-hank-green-reveal-50-science-misconceptions/].

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

Government Accountability Office. Department of Education: Long-Standing Management Problems Hamper Reforms. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office: 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mednick Takami L. Chief Diversity Officers in U.S. Higher Education: Impacting the Campus Climate for Diversity. 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

Vecsey G. Eusebio, Who Represented the Best of Soccer and of Portugal, Dies at 71. New York Times 2014: B9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 6, 5, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Eksploatacja i Niezawodnosc - Maintenance and Reliability
ISSN (print)	1507-2711
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