How to format your references using the Applied Composite Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Composite Materials. 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

Macilwain, C.: Green light for plans to sell off US helium reserve. Nature. 405, 496 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Schulze, A., Harris, A.L.: How cancer metabolism is tuned for proliferation and vulnerable to disruption. Nature. 491, 364–373 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Yuasa, S., Nagahama, T., Suzuki, Y.: Spin-polarized resonant tunneling in magnetic tunnel junctions. Science. 297, 234–237 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gómez-Consarnau, L., González, J.M., Coll-Lladó, M., Gourdon, P., Pascher, T., Neutze, R., Pedrós-Alió, C., Pinhassi, J.: Light stimulates growth of proteorhodopsin-containing marine Flavobacteria. Nature. 445, 210–213 (2007)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anson, E.M.: Alexander’s Heirs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2014)

An edited book

İnan, E., Kırış, A. eds: Vibration Problems ICOVP 2005. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2007)

A chapter in an edited book

Fornés, A., Escalera, S., LLadós, J., Sánchez, G., Radeva, P., Pujol, O.: Handwritten Symbol Recognition by a Boosted Blurred Shape Model with Error Correction. In: Martí, J., Benedí, J.M., Mendonça, A.M., and Serrat, J. (eds.) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Third Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. pp. 13–21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2007)

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 Composite Materials.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Meet The Parasitic Worm That Kills Giant Pandas, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/meet-parasitic-worm-kills-giant-pandas/

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: Education and Employment Issue Area: Active Assignments. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Di Giacomo, F.A.: Education amidst transition: The case of Romania, (2010)

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, C.: Giving Conservative Films A Head Start, Right Here, (2012)

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 Composite Materials
Abbreviation	Appl. Compos. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0929-189X
ISSN (online)	1573-4897
Scope	Ceramics and Composites