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]

Schiermeier Q. Bridging the gap in the German economy. Nature. 2005;436(7054):1087.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Seder RA, Hill AV. Vaccines against intracellular infections requiring cellular immunity. Nature. 2000;406(6797):793–798.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Park I-U, Peacey MW, Munafò MR. Modelling the effects of subjective and objective decision making in scientific peer review. Nature. 2014;506(7486):93–96.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Zhang L, Meng W-Q, Lu L, et al. Selective detection of endogenous H₂S in living cells and the mouse hippocampus using a ratiometric fluorescent probe. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5870.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dooner DB. Kinematic Geometry of Gearing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Kreutzmann H, Watanabe T, editors. Mapping Transition in the Pamirs: Changing Human-Environmental Landscapes. 1st ed. 2016. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Prassas ES, Roess RP. Illustrations of Complex Economic Analyses. In: Roess RP, editor. Engineering Economics and Finance for Transportation Infrastructure. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 113–149.

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]

Andrews R. This Cyborg Stingray Is Built From Genetically Engineered Solar-Powered Heart Cells [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-cyborg-stingray-is-built-from-genetically-engineered-solarpowered-heart-cells/.

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. Airline Competition: Cargo Airline Has Enhanced Competition in Hawaii but Faces an Uncertain Future. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998. Report No.: RCED-98-156. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Roediger E. Relaxation Skills Training for Elementary Aged Children [Doctoral dissertation]. [Edwardsville, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2015.

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]

Vecsey G. Foot in the Door. New York Times. 2010 Jun 30;B10.

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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