How to format your references using the Journal of Alloys and Compounds citation style

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

[1]

J.F. Allen, Botany. State transitions--a question of balance, Science 299 (2003) 1530–1532.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.J. Drake, K. Righter, Determining the composition of the Earth, Nature 416 (2002) 39–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

I. Provencio, M.D. Rollag, A.M. Castrucci, Photoreceptive net in the mammalian retina. This mesh of cells may explain how some blind mice can still tell day from night, Nature 415 (2002) 493.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Buckling, R. Craig Maclean, M.A. Brockhurst, N. Colegrave, The Beagle in a bottle, Nature 457 (2009) 824–829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.A. Brown, L. Kaplan, The Advanced Practice Registered Nurse as a Prescriber, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

P.M. Selzer, R.J. Marhöfer, A. Rohwer, eds., Applied Bioinformatics: An Introduction, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Kearney, How are Disabled Students Excluded from and Within School, in: A. Kearney (Ed.), Exclusion from and Within School: Issues and Solutions, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2011: pp. 79–91.

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 Alloys and Compounds.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, The Mystery Of Breast Cancer, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mystery-breast-cancer/ (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, Technology Development: Future Use of NASA’s Large Format Camera Is Uncertain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Donohue, Resolving Past Liabilities for Future Reduction in Greenhouse Gases; Nuclear Energy and the Outstanding Federal Liability of Spent Nuclear Fuel, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

S. Joy, Who’s That (Cool) Girl?, New York Times (2014) E11.

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 Alloys and Compounds
Abbreviation	J. Alloys Compd.
ISSN (print)	0925-8388
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Materials Chemistry Metals and Alloys