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

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Ledford, H. Epigenetics: The Genome Unwrapped. Nature 2015, 528 (7580), S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Yagi, M.; Oikawa, S. Ontogenetic Phase Shifts in Metabolism in a Flounder Paralichthys Olivaceus. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 7135.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Bußhardt, P.; Kunze, D.; Gorb, S. N. Interlocking-Based Attachment during Locomotion in the Beetle Pachnoda Marginata (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 6998.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Gerstenberger, M. C.; Wiemer, S.; Jones, L. M.; Reasenberg, P. A. Real-Time Forecasts of Tomorrow’s Earthquakes in California. Nature 2005, 435 (7040), 328–331.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Zirngibl, L. Antifungal Azoles; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

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CONCUR 2006 – Concurrency Theory: 17th International Conference, CONCUR 2006, Bonn, Germany, August 27-30, 2006. Proceedings; Baier, C., Hermanns, H., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; Vol. 4137.

A chapter in an edited book

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Wichmann, T.; DeLong, M. R. Basal Ganglia Discharge Abnormalities in Parkinson’s Disease. In Parkinson’s Disease and Related Disorders; Riederer, P., Reichmann, H., Youdim, M. B. H., Gerlach, M., Eds.; Journal of Neural Transmission. Supplementa; Springer: Vienna, 2006; pp 21–25.

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

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Luntz, S. Vast Galactic Collisions Create Dark Matter Laboratory. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/vast-galactic-collisions-create-dark-matter-laboratory/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Information Technology Cost Estimation: Agencies Need to Address Significant Weaknesses in Policies and Practices; GAO-12-629; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Wahl, S. E. Registered Nurse Preceptorship Orientation: A Study of the Relationship between Burnout Rates of New Graduates and Number of Preceptors Worked with in the Clinical Orientation Phase. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2008.

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

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Wasik, J. F. Trading Stocks for Bonds Poses Its Own Risks. New York Times. August 26, 2016, p B4.

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