How to format your references using the Advances in Science and Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advances in Science and Research. 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 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

FitzGerald, G. A.: Circadian Rhythms. Temporal targets of drug action, Science, 346, 921–922, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rodell, C. B. and Burdick, J. A.: Materials science: Radicals promote magnetic gel assembly, Nature, 514, 574–575, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Turner, G. C., Du, F., and Varshavsky, A.: Peptides accelerate their uptake by activating a ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathway, Nature, 405, 579–583, 2000.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Clantin, B., Delattre, A.-S., Rucktooa, P., Saint, N., Méli, A. C., Locht, C., Jacob-Dubuisson, F., and Villeret, V.: Structure of the membrane protein FhaC: a member of the Omp85-TpsB transporter superfamily, Science, 317, 957–961, 2007.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisen, P. S. and Raghuvanshi, R.: Emerging Epidemics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

La Barbera, M. (Ed.): Identity and Migration in Europe: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, Springer International Publishing, Cham, XIII, 270 p. 9 illus pp., 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Yu, J. and Shen, Y.: Evolutionary Personalized Hashtag Recommendation, in: Web-Age Information Management: 15th International Conference, WAIM 2014, Macau, China, June 16-18, 2014. Proceedings, edited by: Li, F., Li, G., Hwang, S.-W., Yao, B., and Zhang, Z., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 34–37, 2014.

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 Advances in Science and Research.

Blog post

Glacial Meltwater on Martian Volcano May Have Harbored Life: https://www.iflscience.com/space/glacial-meltwater-martian-volcano-may-have-harbored-life/, last access: 30 October 2018.

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

Government Accountability Office: Health, Education and Human Services Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Davenport, C. S.: Dynamic Modeling Framework to Predict Instantaneous Status of a Tractor-Dolly System, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 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

Walsh, M. W. and Hakim, D.: Public Pensions Faulted for Bets On Rosy Returns, New York Times, 28th May, A1, 2012.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (FitzGerald, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (FitzGerald, 2014; Rodell and Burdick, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Rodell and Burdick, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Clantin et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Advances in Science and Research
Abbreviation	Adv. Sci. Res.
ISSN (print)	1992-0628
ISSN (online)	1992-0636
Scope