How to format your references using the Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Science: Advanced Materials and Devices. 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]

R. East, Microbiome: Soil science comes to life, Nature 501 (2013) S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.M. Knesel, J.P. Davidson, Insights into collisional magmatism from isotopic fingerprints of melting reactions, Science 296 (2002) 2206–2208.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. De Pontieu, R. Erdélyi, S.P. James, Solar chromospheric spicules from the leakage of photospheric oscillations and flows, Nature 430 (2004) 536–539.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.M. Keck, M.H. Jones, C.C.L. Wong, J. Binkley, D. Chen, S.L. Jaspersen, E.P. Holinger, T. Xu, M. Niepel, M.P. Rout, J. Vogel, A. Sidow, J.R. Yates 3rd, M. Winey, A cell cycle phosphoproteome of the yeast centrosome, Science 332 (2011) 1557–1561.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.E. Burrows, R.J. Tyrl, Toxic Plants of North America, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A.R. Sepulveda, J.P. Lynch, eds., Molecular Pathology of Neoplastic Gastrointestinal Diseases, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.A. Gonzalez, Badlands of the Northern Great Plains: Hell with the Fires Out, in: P. Migon (Ed.), Geomorphological Landscapes of the World, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 29–38.

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 Science: Advanced Materials and Devices.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, NASA’s Curiosity Rover Spots Metallic Object On Mars, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasas-curiosity-rover-has-found-its-third-meteorite-on-mars/ (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, Air Traffic Control Modernization: Status of the Current Program and Planning for the Next Generation Air Transportation System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.N. Wansapura, The role of alpha sodium,potassium-ATPase isoforms in mediating cardiac hypertrophy in response to endogenous cardiotonic steroids, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 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

[1]

S.K. (nyt), World Briefing | Europe: Russia: 11 Killed In Chechen Ambushes, New York Times (2004) A6.

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 Science: Advanced Materials and Devices
ISSN (print)	2468-2179
Scope