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]

von Hobe M. Atmospheric science. Revisiting ozone depletion. Science 2007;318:1878–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Fairn GD, Grinstein S. Cell biology. Precursor or charge supplier? Science 2012;337:653–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pakull MW, Soria R, Motch C. A 300-parsec-long jet-inflated bubble around a powerful microquasar in the galaxy NGC 7793. Nature 2010;466:209–12.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Brack AS, Conboy MJ, Roy S, Lee M, Kuo CJ, Keller C, et al. Increased Wnt signaling during aging alters muscle stem cell fate and increases fibrosis. Science 2007;317:807–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Braudeau E, Assi AT, Mohtar RH. Hydrostructural Pedology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Beynen PE van, editor. Karst Management. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Schwarz E, Bahn S. Schizophrenia Biomarkers: A Means to Advance Disease Understanding, Diagnosis and Treatment. In: Turck C, editor. Biomarkers for Psychiatric Disorders, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009, p. 75–96.

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]

Hamilton K. Lift-Off For NASA Mission To Collect Grains From An Asteroid That May Be On Collision Course With Earth. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/lift-off-for-nasa-mission-to-collect-grains-from-an-asteroid-that-may-be-on-collision-course-with-earth/ (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. Geospatial Data: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts [Reissued March 18, 2015]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Campbell AB. An analysis of the demography and habitat usage of Roatán’s spiny-tailed iguana, Ctenosaura oedirhina. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 2015.

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]

Kenigsberg B. Film Series in NYC This Week. New York Times 2016:C29.

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

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