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]

T. de Jong, Computer simulations. Technological advances in inquiry learning, Science 312 (2006) 532–533.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Guo, A. Guo, Crossmodal interactions between olfactory and visual learning in Drosophila, Science 309 (2005) 307–310.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

K.D. Bidle, M. Manganelli, F. Azam, Regulation of oceanic silicon and carbon preservation by temperature control on bacteria, Science 298 (2002) 1980–1984.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Li, D. Tu, A.T. Brunger, Y. Ye, A ubiquitin ligase transfers preformed polyubiquitin chains from a conjugating enzyme to a substrate, Nature 446 (2007) 333–337.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T.A. Stolarski, S. Tobe, Rolling Contacts, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2000.

An edited book

[1]

J. Blanc-Talon, A. Kasinski, W. Philips, D. Popescu, P. Scheunders, eds., Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems: 15th International Conference, ACIVS 2013, Poznań, Poland, October 28-31, 2013. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Dimililer, E. Varoğlu, Recognizing Biomedical Named Entities Using SVMs: Improving Recognition Performance with a Minimal Set of Features, in: E.G. Bremer, J. Hakenberg, E.-H. (sam) Han, D. Berrar, W. Dubitzky (Eds.), Knowledge Discovery in Life Science Literature: PAKDD 2006 International Workshop, KDLL 2006, Singapore, April 9, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 53–67.

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, How Flossing Gave This Woman A Knee Infection, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-flossing-gave-woman-knee-infection/ (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, Highway Safety: Motorcycle Helmet Laws Save Lives and Reduce Costs to Society, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Stefanek, Quantitative Purchasing Structure for Ferrous Scrap, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2019.

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]

B. Rothenberg, Tricky Draw, and Tricky Hip, Stand in Way of Murray’s Title Defense, New York Times (2017) D2.

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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