How to format your references using the ACI Materials Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACI Materials Journal. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Pagel, M. “Evolution: Adapted to culture,” Nature, V. 482, No. 7385, 2012, pp. 297–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vinnikov, K. Y., and Grody, N. C. “Global warming trend of mean tropospheric temperature observed by satellites,” Science (New York, N.Y.), V. 302, No. 5643, 2003, pp. 269–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Archibald, J. D., Averianov, A. O., and Ekdale, E. G. “Late Cretaceous relatives of rabbits, rodents, and other extant eutherian mammals,” Nature, V. 414, No. 6859, 2001, pp. 62–5.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ghobadloo, S. M., Balcerzak, A. K., Gargaun, A., et al. “Carbohydrate-based ice recrystallization inhibitors increase infectivity and thermostability of viral vectors,” Scientific reports, V. 4, 2014, p. 5903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abid, M. M. “Spacecraft Sensors,” Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

Gervasi, O., Gavrilova, M. L., Kumar, V., et al., eds. “Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005: International Conference, Singapore, May 9-12, 2005, Proceedings, Part I,” v. vol. 3480, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2005, LXV, 1234 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Heger, A. H. “Child Sexual Abuse: The History, Current State of the Art and the Challenges for the Future: A Pediatric Perspective.” In: Korbin, J. E., Krugman, R. D., eds. Handbook of Child Maltreatment. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2014. pp. 81–97.

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 ACI Materials Journal.

Blog post

Luntz, S. “Proposed Device Could Capture Unlimited Renewable Energy From Earth’s Infared Emissions.” IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/proposed-device-could-capture-unlimited-renewable-energy-earths-infared-emissions/. Accessed October 30, 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. “Migrant Children: Education and HHS Need to Improve the Exchange of Participant Information,” Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nasrollahzadeh, Y. “Support group for caregivers of older adults affected by dementia: A grant proposal project.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

de la MERCED, M. J., and Abrams, R. “Abercrombie & Fitch in Talks to Sell Itself,” New York Times, 2017, p. B5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	ACI Materials Journal
ISSN (print)	0889-325x
ISSN (online)	1944-737X
Scope