How to format your references using the Journal of Composites Science citation style

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

Brooks, T.M. Conservation: Mind the Gaps. Nature 2014, 516, 336–337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Patel, A.D.; Balaban, E. Temporal Patterns of Human Cortical Activity Reflect Tone Sequence Structure. Nature 2000, 404, 80–84.

A journal article with 3 authors

Grubb, P.J.; Coomes, D.A.; Metcalfe, D.J. Comment on “A Brief History of Seed Size.” Science 2005, 310, 783; author reply 783.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fuss, B.; Becker, T.; Zinke, I.; Hoch, M. The Cytohesin Steppke Is Essential for Insulin Signalling in Drosophila. Nature 2006, 444, 945–948.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Johnston, D. A Brief History of Justice; Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK, 2011; ISBN 9781444397550.

An edited book

Dubey, S.P. Color Atlas of Head and Neck Surgery: A Step-by-Step Guide; Molumi, C.P., Ed.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319156446.

A chapter in an edited book

Emery, K.; Sallee, T.; Han, Q. Worker Selection for Reliably Crowdsourcing Location-Dependent Tasks. In Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services: 7th International Conference, MobiCASE 2015, Berlin, Germany, November 12–13, 2015, Revised Selected Papers; Sigg, S., Nurmi, P., Salim, F., Eds.; Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 71–86 ISBN 9783319290027.

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 Composites Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Test-Driving the Brain Could Reveal Early Signs of Alzheimer’s Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/test-driving-brain-could-reveal-early-signs-alzheimer-s/ (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office High Risk: Actions Needed to Address Serious Weaknesses in Federal Management of Programs Serving Indian Tribes; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2017;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Foster, H.C. The Effect of Droplet Size and Sprayer Type on Physical Drift. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS, 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

Kelly, S. Annie, Get Your Calculator. New York Times 2004, 146.

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 Composites Science
Abbreviation	J. Compos. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2504-477X
Scope