How to format your references using the Composites Science and Technology citation style

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

A.A. Rosenberg, Fishing for certainty, Nature 449 (2007) 989.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Iwasaki, R. Medzhitov, Regulation of adaptive immunity by the innate immune system, Science 327 (2010) 291–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.A. Lowes, A.M. Bowcock, J.G. Krueger, Pathogenesis and therapy of psoriasis, Nature 445 (2007) 866–873.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.M.U. Ali, S.M. Roe, C.K. Vaughan, P. Meyer, B. Panaretou, P.W. Piper, C. Prodromou, L.H. Pearl, Crystal structure of an Hsp90-nucleotide-p23/Sba1 closed chaperone complex, Nature 440 (2006) 1013–1017.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.A. Powsner, M.R. Palmer, E.R. Powsner, Essentials of Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

L. Rothrock, S. Narayanan, eds., Human-in-the-Loop Simulations: Methods and Practice, Springer, London, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Z. Cheng, New Chaos Produced from Synchronization of Chaotic Neural Networks, in: F. Sun, J. Zhang, Y. Tan, J. Cao, W. Yu (Eds.), Advances in Neural Networks - ISNN 2008: 5th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2008, Beijing, China, September 24-28, 2008, Proceedings, Part I, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 40–46.

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 Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Quit Sugar, Go Paleo, Embrace ‘Clean Food’: The Power Of Celebrity Nutrition, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/quit-sugar-go-paleo-embrace-clean-food-power-celebrity-nutrition/ (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, Regulatory Effects on R&D Are Better Assessed As Part of the Innovation Process, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.E. Fay, California employer perspectives on older working adults specific to the Affordable Care Act health insurance mandate, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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. Wagner, DeGrom Escapes Despite A Barrage of Home Runs, New York Times (2017) D3.

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 Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Compos. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0266-3538
Scope	General Engineering Ceramics and Composites