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

Wijnen, H.: Circadian rhythms. A circadian loop asSIRTs itself. Science. 324, 598–599 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Shao, S., Hegde, R.S.: Cell Biology. Local synthesis and disposal. Science. 346, 701–702 (2014)

A journal article with 3 authors

Childers, S.E., Ciufo, S., Lovley, D.R.: Geobacter metallireducens accesses insoluble Fe(III) oxide by chemotaxis. Nature. 416, 767–769 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ai, W., Xie, L., Du, Z., Zeng, Z., Liu, J., Zhang, H., Huang, Y., Huang, W., Yu, T.: A novel graphene-polysulfide anode material for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Sci. Rep. 3, 2341 (2013)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Van Fleet, P.J.: Discrete Wavelet Transformations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2008)

An edited book

Jürgensen, H., Karhumäki, J., Okhotin, A. eds: Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems: 16th International Workshop, DCFS 2014, Turku, Finland, August 5-8, 2014. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

A chapter in an edited book

Friedman, Y., Scarr, T.: The classical bounded symmetric domains. In: Scarr, T. (ed.) Physical Applications of Homogeneous Balls. pp. 153–193. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA (2005)

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.: Second Longest Insect In The World Discovered In Vietnam, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/second-longest-insect-world-discovered-vietnam/

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: Fund Accountability: Procedures Used for Selected Benefit/Mandatory Spending Programs Are Adequate. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1988)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fair, C.L.: Structure of the Roberts Mountains allochthon in the Three Bar Ranch Quadrangle, Roberts Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada, (2012)

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

Feeney, K.: Baked Treats of Portugal, (2010)

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