How to format your references using the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Sol-Gel Science 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	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

Heremans JP (2014) Thermoelectricity: The ugly duckling. Nature 508:327–328

A journal article with 2 authors

Jallepalli PV, Pellman D (2007) Cell biology. Aneuploidy in the balance. Science 317:904–905

A journal article with 3 authors

Muraoka T, Kinbara K, Aida T (2006) Mechanical twisting of a guest by a photoresponsive host. Nature 440:512–515

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bosman M, Ye E, Tan SF, et al (2013) Surface plasmon damping quantified with an electron nanoprobe. Sci Rep 3:1312

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boussabaine A (2013) Risk Pricing Strategies for Public-Private Partnerships Projects. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford

An edited book

Sosnovskiy L (2016) Mechanothermodynamics. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Olbers D, Willebrand J, Eden C (2012) Approximations Relating to Density Changes and Geometric Conditions. In: Willebrand J, Eden C (eds) Ocean Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 117–136

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 Sol-Gel Science and Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Why The Cradle Of Humankind Is One Of The Most Precious Fossil Sites In The World. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1984) Improvements Needed in the Department of the Interior’s Measurement of Offshore Oil for Royalty Purposes. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Horton CR (2013) Financial crisis within the nonprofit sector. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Prochnik G (2010) Now Don’t Hear This. New York Times WK11

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 Sol-Gel Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Solgel Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0928-0707
ISSN (online)	1573-4846
Scope	General Chemistry Biomaterials Ceramics and Composites Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics