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

Crow, J. M. (2012). HPV: The global burden. Nature, 488(7413), S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gurnett, D. A., & Kurth, W. S. (2008). Intense plasma waves at and near the solar wind termination shock. Nature, 454(7200), 78–80.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gutfreund, Y., Zheng, W., & Knudsen, E. I. (2002). Gated visual input to the central auditory system. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5586), 1556–1559.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Stouffer, A. L., Acharya, R., Salom, D., Levine, A. S., Di Costanzo, L., Soto, C. S., Tereshko, V., Nanda, V., Stayrook, S., & DeGrado, W. F. (2008). Structural basis for the function and inhibition of an influenza virus proton channel. Nature, 451(7178), 596–599.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fuller, S. (2005). RapidIO®: The Embedded System Interconnect. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Seck, D. (Ed.). (2016). Accelerated Economic Growth in West Africa. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Tkachuk, N., Sokol, V., & Glukhovtsova, K. (2013). An Integrated Development Framework for Advanced IT-Service Management: Proof-of-Concept Project in Universities Domain. In V. Ermolayev, H. C. Mayr, M. Nikitchenko, A. Spivakovsky, & G. Zholtkevych (Eds.), Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications: 9th International Conference, ICTERI 2013, Kherson, Ukraine, June 19-22, 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 50–69). Springer International Publishing.

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, D. (2014, December 15). Watch A Man Walk On Lava. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/watch-a-man-walk-on-lava/

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. (1975). Federal Funding Provided to 10 Police Departments for Intelligence Activities (GGD-76-21). 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

Reich, J. C. (2010). An iterative feature perturbation method for gene selection from microarray data [Doctoral dissertation]. University of South Florida.

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

Belson, K., & Pilon, M. (2012, October 31). Marathon Is Set to Go On, Stirring Debate. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crow, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Crow, 2012; Gurnett & Kurth, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Gurnett & Kurth, 2008)
Three authors: (Gutfreund et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Stouffer et al., 2008)

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