How to format your references using the Applied Acoustics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Acoustics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

[1]

Chudler EH. SPORE series winner. Resources for anyone interested in the brain. Science 2010;328:1648–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gabel HW, Greenberg ME. Genetics. The maturing brain methylome. Science 2013;341:626–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mace GM, Gittleman JL, Purvis A. Preserving the tree of life. Science 2003;300:1707–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu X, Yue Y, Li B, Nie Y, Li W, Wu W-H, et al. A G protein-coupled receptor is a plasma membrane receptor for the plant hormone abscisic acid. Science 2007;315:1712–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Laplante PA, Ovaska SJ. Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Stephanidis C, editor. Universal Access in Health Telematics: A Design Code of Practice. vol. 3041. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Held L, Sabanés Bové D. Likelihood Inference in Multiparameter Models. In: Sabanés Bové D, editor. Applied Statistical Inference: Likelihood and Bayes, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014, p. 123–65.

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 Applied Acoustics.

Blog post

[1]

O`Callaghan J. Virgin Galactic Flies Again Two Years After Devastating Crash. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/virgin-galactic-takes-to-the-skies-for-the-first-time-in-two-years/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Procedures and Policies of the Energy Research and Development Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Seip N. A one day training on the human papillomavirus for foster youth receiving independent living services: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

[1]

Crow K. Fish Are Running, Not the Meter. New York Times 2003:147.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Acoustics
Abbreviation	Appl. Acoust.
ISSN (print)	0003-682X
Scope	Acoustics and Ultrasonics