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

Reynolds AM. Mussels realize Weierstrassian Lévy walks as composite correlated random walks. Sci. Rep. 2014 Mar 18;4:4409.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratnieks FLW, Wenseleers T. Evolution. Policing insect societies. Science. 2005 Jan 7;307(5706):54–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seiffert ER, Simons EL, Attia Y. Fossil evidence for an ancient divergence of lorises and galagos. Nature. 2003 Mar 27;422(6930):421–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Fomin YD, Ryzhov VN, Tsiok EN, Brazhkin VV, Trachenko K. Dynamic transition in supercritical iron. Sci. Rep. 2014 Nov 26;4:7194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Iyengar SS, Parameshwaran N, Phoha VV, Balakrishnan N, Okoye CD. Fundamentals of Sensor Network Programming. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

Edge C. Enterprise Mac Security: Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Barker W, Hunter B, Sullivan G, editors. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu L, Fieguth P, Wang X, Pietikäinen M, Hu D. Evaluation of LBP and Deep Texture Descriptors with a New Robustness Benchmark. In: Leibe B, Matas J, Sebe N, Welling M, editors. Computer Vision – ECCV 2016: 14th European Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 11-14, 2016, Proceedings, Part III. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 69–86.

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. You Can Sell Your Poop For $13k Per Year And Help Science [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sell-your-poop-13k-year-and-help-worthy-cause/

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. Higher Education: Ensuring Quality Education From Proprietary Institutions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Jun. Report No.: T-HEHS-96-158.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Winer EJ. Elementary School Consolidation and Reconfiguration: An Autoethnographic Case Study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral 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

Greenhouse L. New Leader, Tough Issues for Court in Transition. New York Times. 2005 Sep 30;A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reynolds 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Ratnieks and Wenseleers 2005; Reynolds 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ratnieks and Wenseleers 2005)
Three or more authors: (Fomin et al. 2014)

About the journal

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