How to format your references using the Journal of Aerospace Information Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. 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]

Barrett, C. B., “Measuring Food Insecurity,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 327, No. 5967, 2010, pp. 825–828.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Einstein, T. L., and Stasevich, T. J., “Materials Science. Epitaxial Growth Writ Large,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 327, No. 5964, 2010, pp. 423–424.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Puntes, V. F., Krishnan, K. M., and Alivisatos, A. P., “Colloidal Nanocrystal Shape and Size Control: The Case of Cobalt,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 291, No. 5511, 2001, pp. 2115–2117.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Murata, T., Yamato, I., Kakinuma, Y., Leslie, A. G. W., and Walker, J. E., “Structure of the Rotor of the V-Type Na+-ATPase from Enterococcus Hirae,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 308, No. 5722, 2005, pp. 654–659.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

MacRoberts, “MacRoberts on Scottish Construction Contracts,” John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Harari, P. M., Connor, N. P., and Grau, C., Eds., “Functional Preservation and Quality of Life in Head and Neck Radiotherapy,” Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Le, T., Nguyen, V., Pham, T., Dinh, M., and Le, T. H., “Fuzzy Semi-Supervised Large Margin One-Class Support Vector Machine,” Some Current Advanced Researches on Information and Computer Science in Vietnam: Post-proceedings of The First NAFOSTED Conference on Information and Computer Science, edited by Q. A. Dang, X. H. Nguyen, H. B. Le, V. H. Nguyen, and V. N. Q. Bao, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015, pp. 65–78.

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 Journal of Aerospace Information Systems.

Blog post

[1]

Taub, B., “Spanish Town Bathed In Mysterious ‘Blood Rain,’” IFLScience, IFLScience, Nov 13 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/spanish-town-bathed-mysterious-blood-rain/

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, “Aviation Security: Progress Made in Systematic Planning to Guide Key Investment Decisions, but More Work Remains,” GAO-07-448T, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, February 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zepeda, S., “Housing First Assertive Community Treatment Program for Adults with Schizophrenia and Co-Occurring Substance Abuse: A Grant Proposal,” Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2012.

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]

Pilon, M., and Craig, S., “Safety Concerns Stoke Criticism of Kennel Club,” New York Times, Feb 09 2013, p. SP1.

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	Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
Abbreviation	J. Aerosp. Comput. Inf. Commun.
ISSN (online)	2327-3097
Scope