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

Frenkel, D. (2006). Materials science. Colloidal encounters: a matter of attraction. Science 314 (5800):768–769.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rammig, A. and Mahecha, M.D. (2015). Ecology: Ecosystem responses to climate extremes. Nature 527 (7578):315–316.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lambeck, K., Esat, T.M., and Potter, E.-K. (2002). Links between climate and sea levels for the past three million years. Nature 419 (6903):199–206.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hall, K., Lee, T.-H., Mechler, A.I., Swann, M.J., and Aguilar, M.-I. (2014). Real-time measurement of membrane conformational states induced by antimicrobial peptides: balance between recovery and lysis. Sci. Rep. 4:5479.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michaelian, K.H. (2005). Photoacoustic Infrared Spectroscopy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Romeo, T. (Ed.) (2008). Bacterial Biofilms, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Grillmair, C.J. and Carlin, J.L. (2016). Stellar Streams and Clouds in the Galactic Halo., in Tidal Streams in the Local Group and Beyond: Observations and Implications, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, H.J. Newberg, J.L. Carlin, eds, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 87–112.

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

Davis, J. (2017). Top 10 New Species Discovered 2017IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/top-10-new-species-discovered-2017/ (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 (2007). Assigning Air Traffic Control Costs to Users: Elements of FAA’s Methodology Are Generally Consistent with Standards but Certain Assumptions and Methods Need Additional Support (No. GAO-08-76). 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

Garcia, M. (2015). A.R.T. / Atmospheric. Retail. Therapy (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Kelly, J.F. (2016). Give and Take on Handlebars. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Frenkel 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Rammig and Mahecha 2015; Frenkel 2006).

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

Two authors: (Rammig and Mahecha 2015)
Three or more authors: (Hall et al. 2014)

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

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