How to format your references using the Journal of Analytical Science and Technology citation style

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

Brown KR. Physics Probing the electron. Science. 2014 Jan 17;343(6168):255–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pertsinidis A, Ling XS. Diffusion of point defects in two-dimensional colloidal crystals. Nature. 2001 Sep 13;413(6852):147–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavine MS, Voss D, Coontz R. A robotic future. Introduction to special issue. Science. 2007 Nov 16;318(5853):1083.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bellstedt P, Ihle Y, Wiedemann C, Kirschstein A, Herbst C, Görlach M, et al. Sequential acquisition of multi-dimensional heteronuclear chemical shift correlation spectra with ¹H detection. Sci. Rep. 2014 Mar 27;4:4490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Retherford RD, Choe MK. Statistical Models for Causal Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1993.

An edited book

Kutikhin AG. Genomics of Pattern Recognition Receptors: Applications in Oncology and Cardiovascular Diseases. Yuzhalin AE, editor. Basel: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Holmstrup P, Nielsen CH. Linkage Between Periodontal Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis. In: Lynge Pedersen AM, editor. Oral Infections and General Health: From Molecule to Chairside. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 45–51.

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 Analytical Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E. Bigger Is Better After All [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/bigger-better-after-all/

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. Guaranteed Student Loans: Legislative and Regulatory Changes Needed To Reduce Default Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Sep. Report No.: HRD-87-76.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Campos-Doerfler L. The Role of Sgs1 and Exo1 in the Maintenance of Genome Stability [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2017.

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

Hodara S. A Creative Enclave That Welcomes the Eclectic. New York Times. 2017 May 3;RE13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brown 2014; Pertsinidis and Ling 2001).

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

Two authors: (Pertsinidis and Ling 2001)
Three or more authors: (Bellstedt et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Analytical Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Anal. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (online)	2093-3371
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