How to format your references using the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

Wykes T 2010 Cognitive remediation therapy needs funding Nature 468 165–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gurdon J B and Melton D A 2008 Nuclear reprogramming in cells Science 322 1811–5

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Merritt J M, Bondybey V E and Heaven M C 2009 Beryllium dimer--caught in the act of bonding Science 324 1548–51

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Yang S, Wu Y, Xu T-H, de Waal P W, He Y, Pu M, Chen Y, DeBruine Z J, Zhang B, Zaidi S A, Popov P, Guo Y, Han G W, Lu Y, Suino-Powell K, Dong S, Harikumar K G, Miller L J, Katritch V, Xu H E, Shui W, Stevens R C, Melcher K, Zhao S and Xu F 2018 Crystal structure of the Frizzled 4 receptor in a ligand-free state Nature 560 666–70

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Joseph C 2013 Advanced Credit Risk Analysis and Management (Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Sellnow T L 2009 Effective Risk Communication: A Message-Centered Approach ed R R Ulmer, M W Seeger and R S Littlefield (New York, NY: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chao T-K, Yang B-S, Wong W-K and Yin S-K 2014 Using an Android Smartphone for Robotic Image Recognition Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Engineering Systems (ICITES2013) Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ed J Juang, C-Y Chen and C-F Yang (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 33–40

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 Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

Blog post

[1]

Luntz S 2014 Earth’s Magnetic Pole Could Reverse Within A Single Human Lifetime IFLScience

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 1986 Evaluating the Acquisition and Operation of Information Systems (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Detoya M S 2017 Canned Food Choices of College Students Using the Nuval ® Nutrient-Profiling System Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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]

Kenigsberg B 2016 Review: ‘Videofilia (and Other Viral Syndromes)’ Is a Digital Hall of Mirrors New York Times C11

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	Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Abbreviation	Sci. Technol. Adv. Mater.
ISSN (print)	1468-6996
ISSN (online)	1878-5514
Scope	General Materials Science