How to format your references using the Advanced Powder Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Powder Technology. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
J.-P. Javerzat, Molecular biology. Directing the centromere guardian, Science 327 (2010) 150–151.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
S.M.B. Nijman, S.H. Friend, Cancer. Potential of the synthetic lethality principle, Science 342 (2013) 809–811.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
M.W. Schmidt, H.J. Spero, D.W. Lea, Links between salinity variation in the Caribbean and North Atlantic thermohaline circulation, Nature 428 (2004) 160–163.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
T. Matsuda, K. Bebenek, C. Masutani, F. Hanaoka, T.A. Kunkel, Low fidelity DNA synthesis by human DNA polymerase-eta, Nature 404 (2000) 1011–1013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
A. Bayés de Luna, Clinical Arrhythmology, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.
An edited book
[1]
L.J. Grady, Discrete Calculus: Applied Analysis on Graphs for Computational Science, Springer, London, 2010.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
J. Webster, J. Roberts, R. Jones, Development of a Comfort Model for Cricket Leg Guards (P9), in: P. Brisson (Ed.), The Engineering of Sport 7: Vol. 1, Springer, Paris, 2008: pp. 35–44.

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 Powder Technology.

Blog post
[1]
K. Evans, Thieves Can Steal Your Fingerprints From Your Selfies, 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, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Improved Stategic and Acquisition Planning Can Help Address Emerging Challenges, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
D.J. Dolan, Structural Evolution of Martin Crater Thaumasia Planum, Mars, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]
A.L. Baker, J. David Goodman, Brooklyn Man Is Sought in Two Deaths at Hotels, New York Times (2015) A23.

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 titleAdvanced Powder Technology
AbbreviationAdv. Powder Technol.
ISSN (print)0921-8831
ScopeGeneral Chemical Engineering
Mechanics of Materials

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