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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Healthcare Materials (AHM). 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]

N. Blow, Nature 2008, 455, 697.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Stephanopoulos, J. Kelleher, Science 2001, 292, 2024.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Colombani, D. S. Andersen, P. Léopold, Science 2012, 336, 582.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

[1]

G. Nelson, J. Chandrashekar, M. A. Hoon, L. Feng, G. Zhao, N. J. P. Ryba, C. S. Zuker, Nature 2002, 416, 199.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Sandou, Metaheuristic Optimization for the Design of Automatic Control Laws, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. I. Awad, M. Hassaballah, Eds. , Image Feature Detectors and Descriptors: Foundations and Applications, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Russell, J. G. Tokatlian, in Foreign Policy Responses to the Rise of Brazil: Balancing Power in Emerging States (Eds: G. L. Gardini, M. H. T. de Almeida), Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016, pp. 62–76.

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 Healthcare Materials.

Blog post

[1]

J. Davis, “Prostate Cancer Gene Map Paves Way For Targeted Drugs,” can be found under https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/prostate-cancer-gene-map-paves-way-targeted-drugs/, 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, Wood Utilization: Federal Research and Product Development Activities, Support, and Technology Transfer, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. R. Wallace, A Comparative Analysis of a Conventional Versus a Computer-Assisted Technique for Identification of Mechanical Power Press Hazards, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2006.

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]

L. Greenhouse, New York Times 2006, A12.

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 Healthcare Materials
ISSN (print)	2192-2640
ISSN (online)	2192-2659
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