How to format your references using the Journal of Advanced Ceramics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Advanced Ceramics. 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

[1]

Meunier B. Chemistry. Catalytic degradation of chlorinated phenols. Science 2002, 296: 270–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rubio V, Deng XW. Plant science. Standing on the shoulders of GIGANTEA. Science 2007, 318: 206–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dial KP, Jackson BE, Segre P. A fundamental avian wing-stroke provides a new perspective on the evolution of flight. Nature 2008, 451: 985–9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Wenger OS, Leigh BS, Villahermosa RM, et al. Electron tunneling through organic molecules in frozen glasses. Science 2005, 307: 99–102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Broekaert JAC. Analytical Atomic Spectrometry with Flames and Plasmas. Weinheim, FRG, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Benner P, Bollhöfer M, Kressner D, et al., editors. Numerical Algebra, Matrix Theory, Differential-Algebraic Equations and Control Theory: Festschrift in Honor of Volker Mehrmann. Cham, Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Graumann CF. Psychology in Self-Presentations. Mos LP, editor. In: History of Psychology in Autobiography, New York, NY, Springer US; 2009: 159–77.

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 Journal of Advanced Ceramics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. New Device Performs Eye Exams With Smartphone. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/device-performs-eye-exams-smartphone/. 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. Public Transit: Survey of Public Transit Agency Officials on Contracting Out Public Transit Operations and Other Services (GAO-13-824SP, September 2013), an E-supplement to GAO-13-782. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office; 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tabellario CM. A plan to establish a financial counseling center on the campus of California State University, Long Beach. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

James Woolsey R, Fox BJ. To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source. New York Times 2017: A19.

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	Journal of Advanced Ceramics
ISSN (print)	2226-4108
ISSN (online)	2227-8508
Scope