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]

P. Davies, Nature 2005, 437, 819.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Li, R. B. Kaner, Science 2008, 320, 1170.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. E. Brown, A. H. Bouchez, C. A. Griffith, Nature 2002, 420, 795.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

[1]

S. P. Li, W. S. Lew, J. A. C. Bland, L. Lopez-Diaz, M. Natali, C. A. F. Vaz, Y. Chen, Nature 2002, 415, 600.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. J. Martinelli, D. Z. Milosevic, Project Management ToolBox, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

P. Blandina, M. B. Passani, Eds. , Histamine Receptors: Preclinical and Clinical Aspects, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Hertel, C. Leuschner, M. Harteveld, M. Wiens, in Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins: Linking Ecological, Economic and Social Constraints of Land Use and Conservation (Eds: T. Tscharntke, C. Leuschner, M. Zeller, E. Guhardja, A. Bidin), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007, pp. 87–106.

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]

E. Andrew, “East Asian Maths Teaching Method Boosts English Children’s Progress By A Month,” can be found under https://www.iflscience.com/brain/east-asian-maths-teaching-method-boosts-english-children-s-progress-month/, 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, GSA: Causes of Delay in the Federal Communications Commission Move to the Portals II Building, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H. L. Thixton, Identification of Site-Specific Mycorrhizal Fungi Associates of the Federally Threatened Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid (Platanthera Leucophaea) in Illinois, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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]

J. R. Oestreich, New York Times 2017, C6.

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
Scope