How to format your references using the Advanced Composite Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Composite Materials. 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

[1]

Nowak MA. John Forbes Nash (1928-2015). Nature. 2015;522(7557):420.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shiroguchi K, Kinosita K Jr. Myosin V walks by lever action and Brownian motion. Science. 2007;316(5828):1208–1212.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

González-Pastor JE, Hobbs EC, Losick R. Cannibalism by sporulating bacteria. Science. 2003;301(5632):510–513.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Delgado MR, Schotter A, Ozbay EY, et al. Understanding overbidding: using the neural circuitry of reward to design economic auctions. Science. 2008;321(5897):1849–1852.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chiasson AD. Geothermal Heat Pump and Heat Engine Systems. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Dillmann R, Beyerer J, Hanebeck UD, et al., editors. KI 2010: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 33rd Annual German Conference on AI, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 21-24, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Falmagne J-C, Doble C. Defining Meaningfulness. In: Doble C, editor. On Meaningful Scientific Laws. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 59–78.

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 Advanced Composite Materials.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Confirmed Continental Break-up Timeline Has Implications On Search For Extraterrestrial Life. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Surface Transportation: Prospects for Innovation Through Research, Intelligent Transportation Systems, State Infrastructure Banks, and Design-Build Contracting. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997. Report No.: T-RCED-97-83. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Spruill EL. A correlational analysis relating organizational climate to employee performance: A case study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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]

Wagner J. Wait Over, Indians Strike Quickly. New York Times. 2016 Oct 26;B8.

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	Advanced Composite Materials
Abbreviation	Adv. Compos. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0924-3046
ISSN (online)	1568-5519
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Ceramics and Composites