How to format your references using the Powder Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Powder Technology. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
A. Pentland, Economics: Simple market models fail the test, Nature 525 (2015) 190–191.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
D.S. Schwarzkopf, G. Rees, Neuroscience. Brain activity to rely on?, Science 327 (2010) 43–44.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Z. Peizhen, P. Molnar, W.R. Downs, Increased sedimentation rates and grain sizes 2-4 Myr ago due to the influence of climate change on erosion rates, Nature 410 (2001) 891–897.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
H. Corte-León, V. Nabaei, A. Manzin, J. Fletcher, P. Krzysteczko, H.W. Schumacher, O. Kazakova, Anisotropic magnetoresistance state space of permalloy nanowires with domain wall pinning geometry, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6045.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
R. Landa, Advertising by Design, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.
An edited book
[1]
P.I. Azócar Fernández, Paradigms in Cartography: An Epistemological Review of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Anubhuti Garg, Mugdha Gupta, Garvit Bansal, Bharavi Mishra, Vikas Bajpai, Do Bad Smells Follow Some Pattern?, in: S.C. Satapathy, Y.C. Bhatt, A. Joshi, D.K. Mishra (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Congress on Information and Communication Technology: ICICT 2015, Volume 1, Springer, Singapore, 2016: pp. 39–46.

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 Powder Technology.

Blog post
[1]
E. Andrew, First Images of HIV Protein Spikes Could Lead To New Drugs or Vaccines, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/first-images-hiv-protein-spikes-could-lead-new-drugs-or-vaccines/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, DOT Airline Industry Oversight, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
E. Bishop-Randol, Outcomes of the Program of Assertive Community Treatment in Orange County, California, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]
S. Hodara, A Bucolic Feel, Open Space and a Sense of Community, New York Times (2016) RE7.

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 titlePowder Technology
AbbreviationPowder Technol.
ISSN (print)0032-5910
ScopeGeneral Chemical Engineering

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