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]

D.A. Paige, Ancient Mars: wet in many places, Science. 307 (2005) 1575–1576.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Roberts, S. Simpson, Drug resistance. Deadly defiance. Introduction to special issue, Science. 321 (2008) 355.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.R. Green, L. Galluzzi, G. Kroemer, Cell biology. Metabolic control of cell death, Science. 345 (2014) 1250256.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

W. Wang, Y. Wang, L. Tu, Y. Feng, T. Klein, J.-P. Wang, Magnetoresistive performance and comparison of supermagnetic nanoparticles on giant magnetoresistive sensor-based detection system, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5716.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Ronen, The Positive Power of Imagery, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

H.-J. Ceccaldi, I. Dekeyser, M. Girault, G. Stora, eds., Global Change: Mankind-Marine Environment Interactions: Proceedings of the 13th French-Japanese Oceanography Symposium, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Ghosh, B. Corves, Micromechanisms, in: B. Corves (Ed.), Introduction to Micromechanisms and Microactuators, Springer India, New Delhi, 2015: pp. 51–56.

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]

B. Taub, The Brain Receptor Responsible For OCD Has Been Identified, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-receptor-responsible-ocd-identified/ (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, West Coast Ports: Better Supply Chain Information Could Improve DOT’s Freight Efforts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

T.E. Clement, The makings of digital modernism: Rereading Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans” and poetry by Elsa von Freytag -Loringhoven, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 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]

N. Rich, Just Roll, Baby, New York Times. (2013) MM24.

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

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