How to format your references using the Journal of Automated Reasoning citation style

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

Pan, H.: Metal dichalcogenides monolayers: novel catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen production. Sci. Rep. 4, 5348 (2014)

A journal article with 2 authors

Göndör, A., Ohlsson, R.: Chromosome crosstalk in three dimensions. Nature. 461, 212–217 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Corwin, E.I., Jaeger, H.M., Nagel, S.R.: Structural signature of jamming in granular media. Nature. 435, 1075–1078 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fujimuro, T., Matsui, T., Nitanda, Y., Matta, T., Sakumura, Y., Saito, M., Kohno, K., Nakahata, Y., Bessho, Y.: Hes7 3’UTR is required for somite segmentation function. Sci. Rep. 4, 6462 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cardon, A., Itmi, M.: New Autonomous Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Chaudhuri, P.: View-Dependent Character Animation. Springer, London (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Tóth, C.D., Toussaint, G.T., Winslow, A.: Open Guard Edges and Edge Guards in Simple Polygons. In: Márquez, A., Ramos, P., and Urrutia, J. (eds.) Computational Geometry: XIV Spanish Meeting on Computational Geometry, EGC 2011, Dedicated to Ferran Hurtado on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, June 27-30, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. pp. 54–64. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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 Automated Reasoning.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Humpback Whale Bubble Rings

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: Federal Information Systems Remain Highly Vulnerable to Fraudulent, Wasteful, Abusive, and Illegal Practices. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1982)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Survis, F.D.: Residential lawn water use and lawn irrigation practices: Wellington, Florida, (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

Stewart, J.B.: Monkey Throwing Darts Loses a Faithful Disciple, (2017)

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 Automated Reasoning
Abbreviation	J. Automat. Reason.
ISSN (print)	0168-7433
ISSN (online)	1573-0670
Scope	Artificial Intelligence Computational Theory and Mathematics Software