How to format your references using the Journal of Aerosol Science citation style

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

Proctor, R. N. (2000). Expert witnesses take the stand. Nature, 407(6800), 15–16.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tripati, A., & Elderfield, H. (2005). Deep-sea temperature and circulation changes at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science (New York, N.Y.), 308(5730), 1894–1898.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wasan, D. T., Nikolov, A. D., & Brenner, H. (2001). Fluid dynamics. Droplets speeding on surfaces. Science (New York, N.Y.), 291(5504), 605–606.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Sun, H., Ma, H., Hong, G., Sun, H., & Wang, J. (2014). Survival improvement in patients with pancreatic cancer by decade: a period analysis of the SEER database, 1981-2010. Scientific Reports, 4, 6747.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grove, L. C. (1997). Groups and Characters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Maradudin, A. A. (Ed.). (2007). Light Scattering and Nanoscale Surface Roughness. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Clunas, C. (2004). Text, Representation and Technique in Early Modern China. In K. Chemla (Ed.), History of Science, History of Text (pp. 107–121). Springer Netherlands.

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 Aerosol Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, March 2). Genetics Reveal Antarctica Was Once Too Cold For Penguins. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genetics-reveal-antarctica-was-once-too-cold-penguins/

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. (1994). Medicare: New Claims Processing System Benefits and Acquisition Risks (HEHS/AIMD-94-79). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith, J. (2012). The work expectations of individuals with developmental disabilities [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2011, January 26). Illinois Plan For Pensions Questioned. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Proctor, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Proctor, 2000; Tripati & Elderfield, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Tripati & Elderfield, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Sun et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Aerosol Science
Abbreviation	J. Aerosol Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-8502
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Pollution General Materials Science