How to format your references using the Composites Communications citation style

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

D. Eliezer, Biochemistry. Visualizing amyloid assembly, Science 336 (2012) 308–309.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.W. Kim, J.-P. Ahn, Polycrystalline nanowires of gadolinium-doped ceria via random alignment mediated by supercritical carbon dioxide, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1606.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.R. Ravishankara, J.S. Daniel, R.W. Portmann, Nitrous oxide (N2O): the dominant ozone-depleting substance emitted in the 21st century, Science 326 (2009) 123–125.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.S. Akondy, M. Fitch, S. Edupuganti, S. Yang, H.T. Kissick, K.W. Li, B.A. Youngblood, H.A. Abdelsamed, D.J. McGuire, K.W. Cohen, G. Alexe, S. Nagar, M.M. McCausland, S. Gupta, P. Tata, W.N. Haining, M.J. McElrath, D. Zhang, B. Hu, W.J. Greenleaf, J.J. Goronzy, M.J. Mulligan, M. Hellerstein, R. Ahmed, Origin and differentiation of human memory CD8 T cells after vaccination, Nature 552 (2017) 362–367.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-P. Deschamps, G.J.A. Bioul, G.D. Sutter, Synthesis of Arithmetic Circuits, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

B.R. Minev, ed., Cancer Management in Man: Chemotherapy, Biological Therapy, Hyperthermia and Supporting Measures, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.G. McMahon, Taxonomy of Ejaculatory Disorders and Definitions of Premature Ejaculation, in: E.A. Jannini, C.G. McMahon, M.D. Waldinger (Eds.), Premature Ejaculation: From Etiology to Diagnosis and Treatment, Springer, Milano, 2013: pp. 53–69.

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 Composites Communications.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Best Measurement Yet of the Universe’s Expansion, IFLScience (2014).

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, Space Launch System: Resources Need to be Matched to Requirements to Decrease Risk and Support Long Term Affordability, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Tetley, An investigation of self-authorship, hope, and meaning in life among second-year college students, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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]

J. Kanter, M. Eddy, E.U. Official Apologizes For Comments On Chinese, New York Times (2016) A13.

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	Composites Communications
ISSN (print)	2452-2139
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