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]

Kondro W 2000 CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES: Funding of 2000 Slots Sets Off Musical Chairs Science 288 2112

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Yang W Y and Gruebele M 2003 Folding at the speed limit Nature 423 193–7

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bar-Yam Y, Harmon D and de Bivort B 2009 Systems biology. Attractors and democratic dynamics Science 323 1016–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Lee S J, Woo S-I, Ahn S H, Lim D K, Hong J Y, Park J H, Lim J, Kim M-K and Kwon S W 2014 Functional interpretation of metabolomics data as a new method for predicting long-term side effects: treatment of atopic dermatitis in infants Sci. Rep. 4 7408

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Makower T 2014 Touching the City (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Damiani E, Jeong J, Howlett R J and Jain L C 2009 New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2 vol 226 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ruet J 2014 Indian Firms in World Production: The State, Markets, and Innovation Strategies of Multinational Corporations and Social Regulations: European and Asian Perspectives ed X Richet, V Delteil and P Dieuaide (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 77–91

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]

Andrew E 2014 Seven Myths About The Brain That Most People Believe 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 1992 University Research: Controlling Inappropriate Access to Federally Funded Research Results (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]

Gornto J S 2009 The impact of student leadership in classroom management on student achievement Doctoral dissertation (Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University)

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]

Baker P 2017 Investigation Takes On Gravity In Dangerous Phase for Trump New York Times A1

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