How to format your references using the Journal of Automation and Information Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Automation and Information Sciences. 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

Leutgeb, S., Neuroscience. Detailed Differences, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 319, no. 5870, pp. 1623–24, March 21, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cowen, L. E. and Lindquist, S., Hsp90 Potentiates the Rapid Evolution of New Traits: Drug Resistance in Diverse Fungi, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 309, no. 5744, pp. 2185–89, September 30, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Friedmann, T., Rabin, O. and Frankel, M. S., Ethics. Gene Doping and Sport, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 327, no. 5966, pp. 647–48, February 5, 2010.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Barabé, F., Kennedy, J. A., Hope, K. J. and Dick, J. E., Modeling the Initiation and Progression of Human Acute Leukemia in Mice, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 316, no. 5824, pp. 600–604, April 27, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, H. and Li, G., OFDM-Based Broadband Wireless Networks, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.

An edited book

Carlomagno, T. Ed., Tubulin-Binding Agents: Synthetic, Structural and Mechanistic Insights, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, XI, 331 p, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Muselli, M., Switching Neural Networks: A New Connectionist Model for Classification, in Neural Nets: 16th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets, WIRN 2005, and International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Immune Systems, NAIS 2005, Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, June 8-11, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, B. Apolloni M. Marinaro G. Nicosia and R. Tagliaferri, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 23–30, 2006.

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 Automation and Information Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, E., Episodic Memory Formation In The Hippocampus, IFLScience, June 17, 2014.

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, Surface Transportation: Actions Needed to Improve Documentation of Key Decisions in the TIGER Discretionary Grant Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-14-628R, May 28, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yahil, R. J., The Role of Interleukin-19 in Interleukin-10 Production by Regulatory Macrophages, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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

Dunlap, D. W., and Beachy, S. C., Seeking the Final Faces to Fill a Sept. 11 Tapestry, New York Times, September 11, 2016.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Leutgeb, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Leutgeb, 2008; Cowen et al., 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Cowen et al., 2005)
Three or more authors: (Barabé et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Automation and Information Sciences
ISSN (print)	1064-2315
ISSN (online)	2163-9337
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