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

Butler, D. The Fertility Riddle. Nature 2004, 432, 38–39.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eiben, A.E.; Smith, J. From Evolutionary Computation to the Evolution of Things. Nature 2015, 521, 476–482.

A journal article with 3 authors

Korkhov, V.M.; Mireku, S.A.; Locher, K.P. Structure of AMP-PNP-Bound Vitamin B12 Transporter BtuCD-F. Nature 2012, 490, 367–372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Stone, K.W.; Gundogdu, K.; Turner, D.B.; Li, X.; Cundiff, S.T.; Nelson, K.A. Two-Quantum 2D FT Electronic Spectroscopy of Biexcitons in GaAs Quantum Wells. Science 2009, 324, 1169–1173.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dasgupta, A. Resolving Erroneous Reports in Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2012; ISBN 9781118347867.

An edited book

Geometrical Dynamics of Complex Systems: A Unified Modelling Approach to Physics, Control, Biomechanics, Neurodynamics and Psycho-Socio-Economical Dynamics; Ivancevic, V.G., Ivancevic, T.T., Eds.; Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Systems Engineering; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2006; Vol. 31; ISBN 9781402045448.

A chapter in an edited book

Doyle, E. Anesthesia and Analgesia in Children. In Children’s Orthopaedics and Fractures; Benson, M., Fixsen, J., Macnicol, M., Parsch, K., Eds.; Springer: London, 2009; pp. 37–48 ISBN 9781848826106.

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

Luntz, S. Citizen Scientists Find Five New Supernovae Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/volunteers-find-five-supernovae-0/ (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 Hazardous Waste: Problems and Cleanup Efforts at an FAA Facility in Oklahoma City; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1988;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Savvas, C. Hydroclimate Variability and Landuse Effects on Nutrient Export from Watersheds in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC, 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

Gorman, J. With Lasers in the Flight Plan, Goggles Are Vital. New York Times 2016, D2.

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