How to format your references using the Structures citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Structures. 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]

Ernst T. Engineering. Controlling the polarity of silicon nanowire transistors. Science 2013;340:1414–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Panstruga R, Dodds PN. Terrific protein traffic: the mystery of effector protein delivery by filamentous plant pathogens. Science 2009;324:748–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lewis SL, Edwards DP, Galbraith D. Increasing human dominance of tropical forests. Science 2015;349:827–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Akemann W, Sasaki M, Mutoh H, Imamura T, Honkura N, Knöpfel T. Two-photon voltage imaging using a genetically encoded voltage indicator. Sci Rep 2013;3:2231.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Stephans RA. System Safety for the 21 st Century. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Chen L, Matsuo S, editors. Security Standardisation Research: Second International Conference, SSR 2015, Tokyo, Japan, December 15-16, 2015, Proceedings. vol. 9497. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fritzsche K, Abbo C, Afshar Zanjani H, Goli F. Traditional Medicine and Psychosomatic Medicine. In: Fritzsche K, McDaniel SH, Wirsching M, editors. Psychosomatic Medicine: An International Primer for the Primary Care Setting, New York, NY: Springer; 2014, p. 15–21.

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 Structures.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. How We Solved The 1,000-Year-Old Mystery Of The Druze People’s Origin – With A Genetic Sat Nav. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/how-we-solved-the-1000yearold-mystery-of-the-druze-peoples-origin-with-a-genetic-sat-nav/ (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. Intellectual Property: Risk and Enforcement Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ariani D. Amerindo International Nurse Recruitment Agency. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

Walsh MW. Puerto Rico Development Bank Goes to Court for $400 Million in Taxes. New York Times 2015:B5.

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	Structures
ISSN (print)	2352-0124
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