How to format your references using the Journal of Aircraft citation style

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

King, J., “Climate Science: A Resolution of the Antarctic Paradox,” Nature, Vol. 505, No. 7484, 2014, pp. 491–492.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kai, T., and Spradling, A., “Differentiating Germ Cells Can Revert into Functional Stem Cells in Drosophila Melanogaster Ovaries,” Nature, Vol. 428, No. 6982, 2004, pp. 564–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dickie, I. A., Hurst, J. M., and Bellingham, P. J., “Comment on ‘Conspecific Negative Density Dependence and Forest Diversity,’” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 338, No. 6106, 2012, pp. 469; author reply 469.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Mohanan, V., Nakata, T., Desch, A. N., Lévesque, C., Boroughs, A., Guzman, G., Cao, Z., Creasey, E., Yao, J., Boucher, G., Charron, G., Bhan, A. K., Schenone, M., Carr, S. A., Reinecker, H.-C., Daly, M. J., Rioux, J. D., Lassen, K. G., and Xavier, R. J., “C1orf106 Is a Colitis Risk Gene That Regulates Stability of Epithelial Adherens Junctions,” Science (New York, N.Y.), Vol. 359, No. 6380, 2018, pp. 1161–1166.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dunnivant, F. M., and Anders, E., “A Basic Introduction to Pollutant Fate and Transport,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Henderson-Sellers, B., “Situational Method Engineering,” Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Vafadar, S., and Abdollahzadeh Barfourosh, A., “Towards Requirement Analysis Pattern for Learning Agents,” Agent-Oriented Software Engineering XI: 11th International Workshop, AOSE 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 10-11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, edited by D. Weyns and M.-P. Gleizes, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011, pp. 79–90.

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 Aircraft.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz, S., “Nitrogen-Fed Bacteria Could Power Our Future,” IFLScience, IFLScience, Feb 03 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/nitrogen-fed-bacteria-could-power-our-future/

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, “Tax Systems Modernization: Input Processing Strategy Is Risky and Lacks a Sound Analytical Basis,” T-IMTEC-92-15, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, April 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Carlson, L., “From Albéniz to Arbós: The Orchestration of ‘Iberia,’” Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 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]

Wagner, J., “Mets’ Slide Drags On As a Lead Vanishes,” New York Times, May 14 2017, p. D3.

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 Aircraft
Abbreviation	J. Aircr.
ISSN (print)	0021-8669
ISSN (online)	1533-3868
Scope	Aerospace Engineering