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

Urnov FD (2014) Biological techniques: Edit the genome to understand it. Nature 513:40–41

A journal article with 2 authors

Ekert A, Renner R (2014) The ultimate physical limits of privacy. Nature 507:443–447

A journal article with 3 authors

Pornillos O, Ganser-Pornillos BK, Yeager M (2011) Atomic-level modelling of the HIV capsid. Nature 469:424–427

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Markiewicz WJ, Titov DV, Limaye SS, et al (2007) Morphology and dynamics of the upper cloud layer of Venus. Nature 450:633–636

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazar Madjar H (2016) Radio Spectrum Management. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Herik HJ van D, Xu X, Ma Z, Winands MHM (2008) Computers and Games: 6th International Conference, CG 2008, Beijing, China, September 29 - October 1, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Gonzalez-Gallardo S, Prabusankar G, Cadenbach T, et al (2010) Structure and Bonding of Metal-Rich Coordination Compounds Containing Low Valent Ga(I) and Zn(I) Ligands. In: Parkin G (ed) Metal-Metal Bonding. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 147–188

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 (2014) First Direct Evidence Of Microbial Life Under 1km Of Antarctic Ice. 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 (1998) Airfield Pavement: Keeping Nation’s Runways in Good Condition Could Require Substantially Higher Spending. 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

Dinneny PN (2017) End of August. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Brantley B (2017) When the Gay Best Friend Is the Odd Man Out. New York Times C3

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

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