How to format your references using the Acta Metallurgica Sinica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Metallurgica Sinica. 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

1. S. Yang, Science 348, 396 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

1. E. Kiermaier and M. Sixt, Science 349, 1055 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

1. G. F. Gilestro, G. Tononi, and C. Cirelli, Science 324, 109 (2009).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. J. Huang, S. Rozelle, C. Pray, and Q. Wang, Science 295, 674 (2002).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. D. Morley, Communications and Mobility (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2017).

An edited book

1. Ú. Oswald Spring, H. G. Brauch, and K. G. Tidball, editors , Expanding Peace Ecology: Peace, Security, Sustainability, Equity and Gender: Perspectives of IPRA’s Ecology and Peace Commission (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

1. R. A. R. Green, in Imaging of Bone Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions: Techniques and Applications, edited by A. M. Davies, M. Sundaram, and S. L. J. James (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009), pp. 53–84.

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 Acta Metallurgica Sinica.

Blog post

1. E. Andrew, IFLScience (2015).

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, Transportation Infrastructure: Department of Transportation Highway and Mass Transit Program Reauthorization Proposals (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. D. C. Crossman, The Impact of Safety Culture on Worker Motivation and the Economic Bottom Line, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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. C. Rampell, New York Times B1 (2009).

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	Acta Metallurgica Sinica
Abbreviation	Acta Metall. Sin. (Engl. Lett.)
ISSN (print)	1006-7191
ISSN (online)	2194-1289
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Metals and Alloys