How to format your references using the Ceramics International citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ceramics International. 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	Download the output style file
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]

N. Stafford, Turbulent times, Nature 443 (2006) 385.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Bermingham, C. Dick, Ecology and evolution. The Inga--newcomer or museum antiquity?, Science 293 (2001) 2214–2216.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.W. Stephens, C.M. McLinn, J.R. Stevens, Discounting and reciprocity in an Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma, Science 298 (2002) 2216–2218.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X.-P. Dong, X. Cheng, E. Mills, M. Delling, F. Wang, T. Kurz, H. Xu, The type IV mucolipidosis-associated protein TRPML1 is an endolysosomal iron release channel, Nature 455 (2008) 992–996.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Duchon, R. Hale, Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

G. Nolte, ed., Peace through International Law: The Role of the International Law Commission. A Colloquium at the Occasion of its Sixtieth Anniversary, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Fecher, M. Leucker, V. Wolf, Don’t Know in Probabilistic Systems, in: A. Valmari (Ed.), Model Checking Software: 13th International SPIN Workshop, Vienna, Austria, March 30 - April 1, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 71–88.

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 Ceramics International.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Gene Cernan, The Last Person To Set Foot On The Moon, Dies At 82, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/gene-cernan-last-person-to-set-foot-on-the-moon-dies-at-82/ (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, Overstatement of Contract Target Costs for F-1 Rocket Engines for Saturn V Launch Vehicle, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1970.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.C. Peters, An Evaluation of the Relationship Between Critical Technology Developments and Technology Maturity, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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

[1]

Y. Alcindor, M.D. Shear, Video Disproves Story Kelly Told About Lawmaker, New York Times (2017) A1.

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	Ceramics International
Abbreviation	Ceram. Int.
ISSN (print)	0272-8842
Scope	Process Chemistry and Technology Ceramics and Composites Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Surfaces, Coatings and Films