How to format your references using the Case Studies in Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Case Studies in Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation. 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]

Hughes V. Microbiome: Cultural differences. Nature 2012;492:S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gray RD, Atkinson QD. Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin. Nature 2003;426:435–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chalancon G, Kruse K, Babu MM. Cell biology. Reconfiguring regulation. Science 2012;335:1050–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Whiten A, McGrew WC, Aiello LC, Boesch C, Boyd R, Byrne RW, et al. Studying extant species to model our past. Science 2010;327:410; author reply 410-1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Niemi V, Nyberg K. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System Security. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Pardalos PM, Rebennack S, Pereira MVF, Iliadis NA, Pappu V, editors. Handbook of Wind Power Systems. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ruiz-Amaya J, Delgado-Restituto M, Rodríguez-Vázquez Á. Behavioural Modelling of Pipeline ADCs. In: Delgado-Restituto M, Rodríguez-Vázquez Á, editors. Device-Level Modeling and Synthesis of High-Performance Pipeline ADCs, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 65–103.

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 Case Studies in Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Construction Workers Unearthed Something Very Unexpected While Digging A Hole. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/construction-workers-unearthed-something-very-unexpected-while-digging-a-hole/ (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. Aviation Security: FAA’s Procurement of Explosives Detection Devices. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Richardson S. Individual sense of efficacy, collective teacher efficacy and student achievement in high achieving and low achieving urban public schools. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2014.

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]

Brantley B. As Jaded as Bill Murray Trapped in a Time Warp. New York Times 2016:C1.

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	Case Studies in Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation
ISSN (print)	2214-6571
Scope	Computational Mechanics Mechanics of Materials Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality Materials Science (miscellaneous)