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

Clary DC. Chemistry. Quantum chemistry of complex systems. Science. 2006 Oct 13;314(5797):265–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hoffman KL, McNaughton BL. Coordinated reactivation of distributed memory traces in primate neocortex. Science. 2002 Sep 20;297(5589):2070–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gélinas Y, Baldock JA, Hedges JI. Organic carbon composition of marine sediments: effect of oxygen exposure on oil generation potential. Science. 2001 Oct 5;294(5540):145–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Genbacev OD, Prakobphol A, Foulk RA, Krtolica AR, Ilic D, Singer MS, et al. Trophoblast L-selectin-mediated adhesion at the maternal-fetal interface. Science. 2003 Jan 17;299(5605):405–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laycock J, Meeran K. Integrated Endocrinology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

Filippini D, editor. Autonomous Sensor Networks: Collective Sensing Strategies for Analytical Purposes. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Hirvensalo M. Quantum Information – A Tutorial. In: Calude CS, Kari J, Petre I, Rozenberg G, editors. Unconventional Computation: 10th International Conference, UC 2011, Turku, Finland, June 6-10, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 11–3.

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. Best Dads In The Animal Kingdom [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/best-dads-animal-kingdom/

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. Space Acquisitions: Government and Industry Partners Face Substantial Challenges in Developing New DOD Space Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009 Apr. Report No.: GAO-09-648T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gallardo-Macias R. Tin (II) compounds as novel catalysts for the Kabachnik-Fields reaction: Studies in the synthesis of alpha-aminophosphonates under solvent free conditions and Synthesis of phosphonates and phosphates as reversible and irreversible inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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

Kishkovsky S. A Rock Telethon in Russia, Echoing the Mood of 9/11. New York Times. 2004 Sep 9;A8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Clary 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Clary 2006; Hoffman and McNaughton 2002).

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

Two authors: (Hoffman and McNaughton 2002)
Three or more authors: (Genbacev et al. 2003)

About the journal

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

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