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

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

da Silva Copertino M. Add coastal vegetation to the climate critical list. Nature 2011;473:255.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Perutz MF, Windle AH. Cause of neural death in neurodegenerative diseases attributable to expansion of glutamine repeats. Nature 2001;412:143–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Duncan K, Sadanand A, Davachi L. Memory’s penumbra: episodic memory decisions induce lingering mnemonic biases. Science 2012;337:485–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ibata R, Irwin M, Lewis G, Ferguson AM, Tanvir N. A giant stream of metal-rich stars in the halo of the galaxy M31. Nature 2001;412:49–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Blanchet G, Dupouy B. Computer Architecture. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Hutter K. Fluid and Thermodynamics: Volume 2: Advanced Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamic Fundamentals. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sakawa M, Nishizaki I. Cooperative Decision Making in Hierarchical Organizations. In: Nishizaki I, Sakawa M, editors. Cooperative and Noncooperative Multi-Level Programming, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009, p. 83–179.

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 Research.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. This Device Eats Polluted Air And Spits Out Power. IFLScience 2017.

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. Highway Infrastructure: Federal Efforts to Strengthen Security Should Be Better Coordinated and Targeted on the Nation’s Most Critical Highway Infrastructure. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Dilenschneider AM. Refusing to be put aside: Women and the meaning of betrayal. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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

[1]

Greenhouse L. Justices Add More Cases On Job Discrimination. New York Times 2008:A11.

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 Research
Abbreviation	J. Adv. Res.
ISSN (print)	2090-1232
Scope	Multidisciplinary