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

Watanabe, M.: A developing theme for AIDS, Nature, 426, 736–737, 2003.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sincich, L. C. and Horton, J. C.: Divided by cytochrome oxidase: a map of the projections from V1 to V2 in macaques, Science, 295, 1734–1737, 2002.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lund, D. C., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., and Curry, W. B.: Gulf Stream density structure and transport during the past millennium, Nature, 444, 601–604, 2006.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Kopp, R. E., Simons, F. J., Mitrovica, J. X., Maloof, A. C., and Oppenheimer, M.: Probabilistic assessment of sea level during the last interglacial stage, Nature, 462, 863–867, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hagen, J.: Industrial Catalysis, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

Daillant, J. and Gibaud, A. (Eds.): X-ray and Neutron Reflectivity: Principles and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIV, 350 p pp., 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

Melhus, I., Arnal, F., Gayraud, T., and Jacquemin, B.: SATSIX Mobility Architecture and Its Performance Evaluation, in: IP Networking over Next-Generation Satellite Systems: International Workshop, Budapest, July 2007, edited by: Fan, L., Cruickshank, H., and Sun, Z., Springer, New York, NY, 59–75, 2008.

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

The 41 Most Nutritious Foods On Earth: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/the-41-most-nutritious-foods-on-earth/, 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: NTSB Recommendations, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hogue, M. L.: A Case Study of Perspectives on Building School and Community Partnerships, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2012.

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

Kanter, J. and Ewing, J.: E.U. Says It May Sue 4 Countries for Letting VW Sell Polluting Vehicles, New York Times, 8th December, B3, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Watanabe, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Sincich and Horton, 2002; Watanabe, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Sincich and Horton, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Kopp et al., 2009)

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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