How to format your references using the Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 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

Fessenden, M.: The cell menagerie: human immune profiling. Nature. 525, 409–411 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Gelb, M.H., Hol, W.G.J.: Parasitology. Drugs to combat tropical protozoan parasites. Science. 297, 343–344 (2002)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, A., Kurdistani, S.K., Grunstein, M.: Requirement of Hos2 histone deacetylase for gene activity in yeast. Science. 298, 1412–1414 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

van de Wal, R.S.W., Boot, W., van den Broeke, M.R., Smeets, C.J.P.P., Reijmer, C.H., Donker, J.J.A., Oerlemans, J.: Large and rapid melt-induced velocity changes in the ablation zone of the Greenland Ice Sheet. Science. 321, 111–113 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hampel, F.R., Ronchetti, E.M., Rousseeuw, P.J., Stahel, W.A.: Robust Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2005)

An edited book

Dunlap, B.J. ed: Proceedings of the 1990 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

A chapter in an edited book

Clematis, A., Corana, A., D’Agostino, D., Galizia, A., Quarati, A.: A Performance-Based Methodology to Improve Grid Exploitation. In: Bartolini, C. and Gaspary, L.P. (eds.) Integrated Management of Systems, Services, Processes and People in IT: 20th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management, DSOM 2009, Venice, Italy, October 27-28, 2009. Proceedings. pp. 43–55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

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 Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Eye-Catching Iridescence is an Anti-Predator Defense, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/eye-catching-iridescence-anti-predator-defense/

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: Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes. 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

McClenahan, A.: The Impact of Media Promulgated Fear on the Psyche: Love Will Prevail, (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

Rosenberg, E.: Louise Rennison, 64, Young-Adult Author, (2016)

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 The American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Abbreviation	J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom.
ISSN (print)	1044-0305
ISSN (online)	1879-1123
Scope	Structural Biology Spectroscopy