How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Research and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Applied Research 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	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

McCusker, J. K. (2001). Photocatalysis. Fuel from photons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5535), 1599–1601.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sneppen, K., & Semsey, S. (2014). Mismatch repair at stop codons is directed independent of GATC methylation on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Scientific Reports, 4, 7346.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mavrodiev, P., Tessone, C. J., & Schweitzer, F. (2013). Quantifying the effects of social influence. Scientific Reports, 3, 1360.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Xue, J., Luo, Z., Li, P., Ding, Y., Cui, Y., & Wu, Q. (2014). A residue-free green synergistic antifungal nanotechnology for pesticide thiram by ZnO nanoparticles. Scientific Reports, 4, 5408.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

King, M. (2011). Process Control. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Madria, S., & Hara, T. (Eds.). (2015). Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery: 17th International Conference, DaWaK 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings (1st ed. 2015, Vol. 9263). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Zupanc, G. K. H. (2011). Adult Neurogenesis in Teleost Fish. In T. Seki, K. Sawamoto, J. M. Parent, & A. Alvarez-Buylla (Eds.), Neurogenesis in the Adult Brain I: Neurobiology (pp. 137–167). Springer Japan.

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 Applied Research and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 10). Scientists Identify A Mechanism That Facilitates Brain Repair Following Stroke. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/scientists-identify-mechanism-facilitates-brain-repair-following-stroke/

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. (2010). Surface Transportation Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Manage Risk, Improve Coordination, and Measure Performance, but Additional Actions Would Enhance Its Efforts (GAO-10-650T). 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

Anderson, E. (2017). Predicting Home Purchase Location in DC: An Intersectional Approach [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Chapman, M. M. (2017, March 23). For the Aged, Self-Driving Cars Could Bridge a Mobility Gap. New York Times, B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCusker, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (McCusker, 2001; Sneppen & Semsey, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Sneppen & Semsey, 2014)
Three authors: (Mavrodiev et al., 2013)
6 or more authors: (Xue et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Research and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Res. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1665-6423
Scope	General Engineering