How to format your references using the Fibers citation style

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

Wakeley, J. Complex Speciation of Humans and Chimpanzees. Nature 2008, 452, E3-4; discussion E4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fyke, J.; Eby, M. Comment on “Climate Sensitivity Estimated from Temperature Reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum.” Science 2012, 337, 1294; author reply 1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

Usdin, M.; Guillerm, M.; Chirac, P. Neglected Tests for Neglected Patients. Nature 2006, 441, 283–284.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cho, H.-S.; Mason, K.; Ramyar, K.X.; Stanley, A.M.; Gabelli, S.B.; Denney, D.W., Jr; Leahy, D.J. Structure of the Extracellular Region of HER2 Alone and in Complex with the Herceptin Fab. Nature 2003, 421, 756–760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Deventer, D.R.; Imai, K.; Mesler, M. Advanced Financial Risk Management, Second Edition; John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.: Solaris South Tower, Singapore, 2013; ISBN 9781118597217.

An edited book

Zia, A.I. Electrochemical Sensing: Carcinogens in Beverages; Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Ed.; Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; Vol. 20; ISBN 9783319326542.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, J.; Liu, P.; Zhang, R.; Lo, J. Advanced FIB Applications in Materials Research at CanmetMATERIALS. In Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2015; Carpenter, J.S., Bai, C., Escobedo, J.P., Hwang, J.-Y., Ikhmayies, S., Li, B., Li, J., Monteiro, S.N., Peng, Z., Zhang, M., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 41–47 ISBN 9783319486017.

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 Fibers.

Blog post

Davis, J. New Glasses May Allow The Wearer To See Colors Not Usually Visible (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Information Technology: Reform Initiatives Can Help Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness; 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

Weber, T.R. Tailored Charged Particle Beams from Single-Component Plasmas. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 2010.

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

Rothenberg, B. Officials Investigating Odd Betting Patterns During Early Match. New York Times 2016, B9.

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	Fibers
Abbreviation	Fibers (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2079-6439
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