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

Coles, P.: The state of the Universe, Nature, 433, 248–256, 2005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ort, D. R. and Long, S. P.: Botany. Limits on yields in the Corn Belt, Science, 344, 484–485, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Toda, S., Stein, R. S., and Sagiya, T.: Evidence from the AD 2000 Izu islands earthquake swarm that stressing rate governs seismicity, Nature, 419, 58–61, 2002.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Wittmann, C. W., Wszolek, M. F., Shulman, J. M., Salvaterra, P. M., Lewis, J., Hutton, M., and Feany, M. B.: Tauopathy in Drosophila: neurodegeneration without neurofibrillary tangles, Science, 293, 711–714, 2001.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yu, J. and Tao, D.: Modern Machine Learning Techniques and Their Applications in Cartoon Animation Research, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

King, A. (Ed.): Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation: 17th International Symposium, LOPSTR 2007, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, August 23-24, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, X, 222 p pp., 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Potts, K. B.: Nutritional Ecology and Reproductive Output in Female Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Variation Among and Within Populations, in: Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective, edited by: Clancy, K. B. H., Hinde, K., and Rutherford, J. N., Springer, New York, NY, 83–100, 2013.

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

Couple Films Kayaker Being Attacked By A Shark In Monterey Bay, California: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/couple-films-kayaker-being-attacked/, 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: DOD Business Systems Modernization: Air Force Business System Schedule and Cost Estimates, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

O’Neal, L.: What’s in Your Toolbox?: Examining Tool Choices at Two Middle and Late Woodland-Period Sites on Florida’s Central Gulf Coast, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2016.

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

Leonhardt, D.: All for the 1%, 1% for All, New York Times, 2nd May, MM23, 2014.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Coles, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Coles, 2005; Ort and Long, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ort and Long, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Wittmann et al., 2001)

About the journal

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