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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Telesco, C.: Astronomy. Born with flare. Science. 314, 605–606 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Du, H., Rosbash, M.: The U1 snRNP protein U1C recognizes the 5’ splice site in the absence of base pairing. Nature. 419, 86–90 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Sato, T., Atomi, H., Imanaka, T.: Archaeal type III RuBisCOs function in a pathway for AMP metabolism. Science. 315, 1003–1006 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

de Marcillac, P., Coron, N., Dambier, G., Leblanc, J., Moalic, J.-P.: Experimental detection of alpha-particles from the radioactive decay of natural bismuth. Nature. 422, 876–878 (2003)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Searle, S.R.: Linear Models. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (1997)

An edited book

Castricano, J., Simonsen, R.R. eds: Critical Perspectives on Veganism. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Herbst, A., vom Brocke, J.: Social Content Management Systems: Challenges and Potential for Organizations. In: Piazolo, F. and Felderer, M. (eds.) Innovation and Future of Enterprise Information Systems: ERP Future 2012 Conference, Salzburg, Austria, November 2012, Revised Papers. pp. 19–28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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.: Powering Nanotechnology With The World’s Smallest Engine, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/powering-nanotechnology-world-s-smallest-engine/

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: Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: Status, Plans, and Future Data Management Challenges. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2002)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Munz, J.A.: Assessing the Value of Educational Competencies of Healthcare Leaders and Organizational Factors: A Case Study Analysis, (2017)

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

Coll, S.: Size Matters, (2017)

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