How to format your references using the Journal of the Chinese Advanced Materials Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Chinese Advanced Materials 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

[1]

Sharkey N. Computer science. The ethical frontiers of robotics. Science. 2008;322(5909):1800–1801.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Price WN 2nd, Rai AK. Drug Development. Are trade secrets delaying biosimilars? Science. 2015;348(6231):188–189.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Glasauer S, Langley S, Beveridge TJ. Intracellular iron minerals in a dissimilatory iron-reducing bacterium. Science. 2002;295(5552):117–119.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Honaramooz A, Snedaker A, Boiani M, et al. Sperm from neonatal mammalian testes grafted in mice. Nature. 2002;418(6899):778–781.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gottlieb I. Next Generation Excel. 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Balogh A. Physics of Collisionless Shocks: Space Plasma Shock Waves. Treumann RA, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Deurveilher S, Semba K. Reciprocal connections between the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the midbrain raphe nuclei: A putative role in the circadian control of behavioral states. In: Monti JM, Pandi-Perumal SR, Jacobs BL, et al., editors. Serotonin and Sleep: Molecular, Functional and Clinical Aspects. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2008. p. 103–131.

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 Chinese Advanced Materials Society.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S. Egyptian Bats’ Calls Reveal Who They Are Talking To. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. The Audit Function in the Automatic Data Processing System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1966. Report No.: 088037. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shen F-Y. A pedagogical and analytic comparison of Auguste Franchomme’s twelve Caprices, op. 7 and Alfredo Piatti’s twelve Caprices, op. 25 [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2009.

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

[1]

Kanter J. Europe’s Parliament Votes to Suspend Talks With Turkey on Joining E.U. New York Times. 2016 Nov 24;A6.

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 Chinese Advanced Materials Society
ISSN (print)	2224-3682
ISSN (online)	2168-1031
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