How to format your references using the Composite Structures citation style

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

Knapp S. Evolution. What, where, and when? Science 2013;341:1182–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Burrows M, Sutton G. Interacting gears synchronize propulsive leg movements in a jumping insect. Science 2013;341:1254–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bose HS, Lingappa VR, Miller WL. Rapid regulation of steroidogenesis by mitochondrial protein import. Nature 2002;417:87–91.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Veillet C, Parker JW, Griffin I, Marsden B, Doressoundiram A, Buie M, et al. The binary Kuiper-belt object 1998 WW31. Nature 2002;416:711–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Goudon T. Mathematics for Modeling and Scientific Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Sciammarella C, Considine J, Gloeckner P, editors. Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dix A. Context and Action in Search Interfaces. In: Ceri S, Brambilla M, editors. Search Computing: Trends and Developments, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011, p. 35–45.

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 Composite Structures.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Human Medicine And Agricultural Chemicals Found In The Blood Of Turtles. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/human-medicine-and-agricultural-chemicals-found-in-the-blood-of-turtles/ (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. Need for More Effective Audits of Federal Grants and Contracts Administered by Institutions of Higher Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Olson CR. Population genetic structure of two abyssal grenadiers of the north Atlantic and northeastern Pacific oceans. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Two Killed In Bus Stop Blast. New York Times 2004:A6.

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	Composite Structures
Abbreviation	Compos. Struct.
ISSN (print)	0263-8223
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Ceramics and Composites