How to format your references using the Journal of the American Ceramic Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 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	Download the output style file
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

Faist J. APPLIED PHYSICS: Smaller, Faster Midinfrared Lasers. Science. 2000;290(5497):1713–1714.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blau WJ, Fleming AJ. Materials science. Designer nanotubes by molecular self-assembly. Science. 2004;304(5676):1457–1458.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chao BF, Wu YH, Li YS. Impact of artificial reservoir water impoundment on global sea level. Science. 2008;320(5873):212–214.

A journal article with 9 or more authors

Schefuss E, Schouten S, Jansen JHF, Sinninghe Damsté JS. African vegetation controlled by tropical sea surface temperatures in the mid-Pleistocene period. Nature. 2003;422(6930):418–421.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wang B-C. Digital Signal Processing Techniques and Applications in Radar Image Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2008

An edited book

Semrud-Clikeman M. Child Neuropsychology: Assessment and Interventions for Neurodevelopmental Disorders. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009

A chapter in an edited book

Ip ACF, Liu J. DNA-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for Metabolite and Nucleic Acid Detection. In: Erdmann VA, Barciszewski J, eds. DNA and RNA Nanobiotechnologies in Medicine: Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013:121–139.

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 the American Ceramic Society.

Blog post

Andrew D. 16 Facts That Show Why Bottled Water Is One Of The Biggest Scams Of The Century. IFLScience. 2017.

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. Traffic Congestion: Trends, Measures, and Effects. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mc Adams AN. School psychologists’ perceptions of procedural fidelity in special education. Doctoral dissertation; California State University, Long Beach; Long Beach, CA; 2012

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. A Father and a Family, Dissolving Into Darkness. New York Times. 2016;C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 the American Ceramic Society
Abbreviation	J. Am. Ceram. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0002-7820
ISSN (online)	1551-2916
Scope	Ceramics and Composites Materials Chemistry