How to format your references using the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids: X citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids: X. 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

[1]

J.D. Franson, Physics. Beating classical computing without a quantum computer, Science 339 (2013) 767–768.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.C. Mann, M.L. Plummer, ECOLOGY: The Other H’s, Science 289 (2000) 718.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Vassilopoulos, P.-R. Wang, D.W. Russell, Transplanted bone marrow regenerates liver by cell fusion, Nature 422 (2003) 901–904.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Rak, O. Pylypenko, T. Durek, A. Watzke, S. Kushnir, L. Brunsveld, H. Waldmann, R.S. Goody, K. Alexandrov, Structure of Rab GDP-dissociation inhibitor in complex with prenylated YPT1 GTPase, Science 302 (2003) 646–650.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Sato, D.M. Kammen, B. Duan, M. Macuha, Z. Zhou, J. Wu, M. Tariq, S.A. Asfaw, Smart Grid Standards, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

T.P. Gullotta, R.W. Plant, M.A. Evans, eds., Handbook of Adolescent Behavioral Problems: Evidence-Based Approaches to Prevention and Treatment, 2nd ed. 2015, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Cesaro, H. Widner, Lessons Learned From Early Clinical Neural Grafting in Parkinson’s Disease, in: P. Brundin, C.W. Olanow (Eds.), Restorative Therapies in Parkinson’s Disease, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2006: pp. 78–92.

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 Non-Crystalline Solids: X.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, The Sun Has Been Spotless For More Than Two Weeks, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-sun-has-been-spotless-for-more-than-two-weeks/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Card Reader Pilot Results Are Unreliable; Security Benefits Need to Be Reassessed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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N.A. Beck, Mobile Apps for Cognitive Restructuring: A Review and Comparative Analysis, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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

[1]

K. Mcbride, When It’s O.K. to Pay for a Story, New York Times (2015) A23.

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 Non-Crystalline Solids: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1591
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