How to format your references using the Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Unmanned Vehicle 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	Download the output style file
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

Turner, M.S. 2011. The dark clouds over US astronomy. Nature 476(7359): 127.

A journal article with 2 authors

Emini, E.A., and Koff, W.C. 2004. AIDS/HIV. Developing an AIDS vaccine: need, uncertainty, hope. Science 304(5679): 1913–1914.

A journal article with 3 authors

Medzhitov, R., Schneider, D.S., and Soares, M.P. 2012. Disease tolerance as a defense strategy. Science 335(6071): 936–941.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gallo, E., Fender, R., Kaiser, C., Russell, D., Morganti, R., Oosterloo, T., and Heinz, S. 2005. A dark jet dominates the power output of the stellar black hole Cygnus X-1. Nature 436(7052): 819–821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Matthews, C. 2012. Engineers’ Data Book. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Shi, Y., Albada, G.D. van, Dongarra, J., and Sloot, P.M.A. (Editors). 2007. Computational Science – ICCS 2007: 7th International Conference, Beijing, China, May 27 - 30, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Mellgren, A.F. 2014. Physiologic Testing. In The ASCRS Manual of Colon and Rectal Surgery. Edited by D.E. Beck, S.D. Wexner, T.L. Hull, P.L. Roberts, T.J. Saclarides, A.J. Senagore, M.J. Stamos, and S.R. Steele. Springer, New York, NY. pp. 63–77.

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 Unmanned Vehicle Systems.

Blog post

Davis, J. 2017, January 31. Undercover Investigation Reveals The Horrific Trade In Baby Chimpanzees. IFLScience. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/undercover-investigation-reveals-the-horrific-trade-in-baby-chimpanzees/ [accessed 30 October 2018].

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. 2005. Data Mining: Agencies Have Taken Key Steps to Protect Privacy in Selected Efforts, but Significant Compliance Issues Remain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bravo, M. 2015. The development of a viable business plan: Analytics of 30 day readmission rates for hospitals and ancillary services. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Rubin, A.J., Kingsley, P., and Karasz, P. 2017, August 18. Attack in Spain Fits Larger Plot. New York Times: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Turner 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Emini and Koff 2004; Turner 2011).

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

Two authors: (Emini and Koff 2004)
Three or more authors: (Gallo et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Unmanned Vehicle Systems
Abbreviation	J. Unmanned Veh. Syst.
ISSN (online)	2291-3467
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