How to format your references using the Fuzzy Information and Engineering citation style

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

K.S. Jayaraman, Indian rocket fizzles out as test launch fails to fly, Nature 410 (2001) 619.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.D. Sachs, W.V. Reid, Environment. Investments toward sustainable development, Science 312 (2006) 1002.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A. Paraschiv-Ionescu, E. Buchser, K. Aminian, Unraveling dynamics of human physical activity patterns in chronic pain conditions, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2019.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Berkovitch, Y. Nicolet, J.T. Wan, J.T. Jarrett, C.L. Drennan, Crystal structure of biotin synthase, an S-adenosylmethionine-dependent radical enzyme, Science 303 (2004) 76–79.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Chin, Reservoir Engineering in Modern Oilfields, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

T. Hens, Financial Economics: A Concise Introduction to Classical and Behavioral Finance, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S.K. Balachander, Flag-Shipping ‘Indicators’ for Green-Campus Transitions and Sustainability: A Case-Study of Learner-Centered Projects at Loyola, Secunderabad, in: W. Leal Filho, N. Muthu, G. Edwin, M. Sima (Eds.), Implementing Campus Greening Initiatives: Approaches, Methods and Perspectives, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 53–60.

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 Fuzzy Information and Engineering.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Was Venus Once A Habitable World Like Earth?, IFLScience (2016).

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, Federal Communications Commission: Direct Broadcast Satellite Public Interest Obligations, 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]

S. Lee, The Influence of Product Involvement and Fan Identification on Response to Team Sponsors’ Products, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005.

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]

L. Greenhouse, Two Convicts From Abroad Win Hearing By Justices, New York Times (2005) A23.

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	Fuzzy Information and Engineering
Abbreviation	Fuzzy Inf. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1616-8658
Scope