How to format your references using the Aerosol Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aerosol Science and 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:

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

Germain, R.N. (2001). The art of the probable: system control in the adaptive immune system. Science 293 (5528):240–245.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sankar, P. and Cho, M.K. (2002). Genetics. Toward a new vocabulary of human genetic variation. Science 298 (5597):1337–1338.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, C., Havlin, S., and Makse, H.A. (2005). Self-similarity of complex networks. Nature 433 (7024):392–395.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roushan, P., Seo, J., Parker, C.V., Hor, Y.S., Hsieh, D., Qian, D., Richardella, A., Hasan, M.Z., Cava, R.J., and Yazdani, A. (2009). Topological surface states protected from backscattering by chiral spin texture. Nature 460 (7259):1106–1109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Beneke, D., Peters, M., Glasser, D., and Hildebrandt, D. (2012). Understanding Distillation Using Column Profile Maps. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Clévy, C., Rakotondrabe, M., and Chaillet, N. (Eds.) (2011). Signal Measurement and Estimation Techniques for Micro and Nanotechnology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Sobotka, P.A., Harrison, D.G., and Fudim, M. (2015). The Endpoint on Measuring the Clinical Effects of Renal Denervation: What Are the Best Surrogates., in Renal Denervation: A New Approach to Treatment of Resistant Hypertension, R.R. Heuser, M. Schlaich, H. Sievert, eds, Springer, London, pp. 25–43.

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 Aerosol Science and Technology.

Blog post

Evans, K. (2016). US Navy Sonar Found To Breach Whale Protection LawsIFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/technology/us-navy-sonar-found-to-breach-whale-protection-laws/ (Accessed 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 (1992). Transportation Infrastructure: Urban Transportation Planning Can Better Address Modal Trade-offs (No. RCED-92-112). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Swann, E. (2014). Adult learning for healthy aging: An investigation of health literacy and technology use in older adults (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Vecsey, G. (2014). Staying on the Island, but Moving a World Away. New York Times SP4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Germain 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Sankar and Cho 2002; Germain 2001).

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

Two authors: (Sankar and Cho 2002)
Three or more authors: (Roushan et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Aerosol Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Aerosol Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0278-6826
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Pollution General Materials Science