How to format your references using the Composites Part B citation style

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

Chawla DS. Badges of distinction. Nature 2015;526:145–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Cole ST, Alzari PM. Microbiology. TB--a new target, a new drug. Science 2005;307:214–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Isaacs FJ, Blake WJ, Collins JJ. Molecular biology. Signal processing in single cells. Science 2005;307:1886–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chen L, Chen W, Qian X, Fang Y, Zhu N. Liquiritigenin alleviates mechanical and cold hyperalgesia in a rat neuropathic pain model. Sci Rep 2014;4:5676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bilbao S. Wave and Scattering Methods for Numerical Simulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Bordini RH, Dastani M, Dix J, Fallah Seghrouchni AE, editors. Programming Multi-Agent Systems: Second International Workshop ProMAS 2004, New York, NY, USA, July 20, 2004, Selected Revised and Invited Papers. vol. 3346. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Pacheco FT, da Rocha AJ. Ischemic Stroke in Adults. In: Hoffmann Nunes R, Abello AL, Castillo M, editors. Critical Findings in Neuroradiology, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 29–44.

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 Part B.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Why Does Hair Change Colour And Turn Grey? IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-does-hair-change-colour-and-turn-grey/ (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. Automated Systems: Legislative Branch Opportunity for Sharing Payroll/Personnel Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Beal ME. Predictive qualities of social characteristics and social integration on altruistic outcomes. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Schmidt MS, Haberman M, Apuzzo M. Wary of Mueller, Trump’s Team Is Investigating His Investigators. 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	Composites Part B
Abbreviation	Compos. B Eng.
ISSN (print)	1359-8368
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Ceramics and Composites