How to format your references using the International Archives of Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Archives of 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	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

W.J. Snell. Development. Plant gametes do fertilization with a twist. Science 2012, 338 (6110), 1038–1039.

A journal article with 2 authors

A.G. Sáez, E. Lozano. Body doubles. Nature 2005, 433 (7022), 111.

A journal article with 3 authors

Y.-L. Li, I.A. Kinloch, A.H. Windle. Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibers from chemical vapor deposition synthesis. Science 2004, 304 (5668), 276–278.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

I.D. Bull, N.R. Parekh, G.H. Hall, P. Ineson, R.P. Evershed. Detection and classification of atmospheric methane oxidizing bacteria in soil. Nature 2000, 405 (6783), 175–178.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J. Ancheyta. Deactivation of Heavy Oil Hydroprocessing Catalysts; John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2016.

An edited book

Contemporary Ecology Research in China; Li, W., Ed.; Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

N.R. Stein, L.T. Ribeiro. Pediatric Neuroimaging. In Pediatric Neuro-oncology; Scheinemann, K., Bouffet, E., Eds.; Springer, New York, NY, 2015; pp 13–30.

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 International Archives of Science and Technology.

Blog post

E. Andrew. Finland’s School Eeforms Won’t Scrap Subjects Altogether https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/finland-s-school-eeforms-won-t-scrap-subjects-altogether/ (accessed Oct 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

Government Accountability Office. Comments on Proposed FPR Subpart; B-203515; U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Y. Nakano. Characterization of copper, zinc-superoxide dismutase aggregates: Role of disulfide bonds and pathway for aggregation. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

J. Kanter, N. Kitsantonis. Tough Act to Follow. New York Times. March 20, 2017, p B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	International Archives of Science and Technology
ISSN (print)	2347-8853
Scope