How to format your references using the Superconductor Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Superconductor Science and 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:

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]

Clark P U 2012 Climate change. Ice sheets in transition Science 337 656–8

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gale M Jr and Foy E M 2005 Evasion of intracellular host defence by hepatitis C virus Nature 436 939–45

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen R-P, Chew K-H and He S 2013 Dynamic control of collapse in a vortex Airy beam Sci. Rep. 3 1406

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Zhang H, Yin R-S, Feng X-B, Sommar J, Anderson C W N, Sapkota A, Fu X-W and Larssen T 2013 Atmospheric mercury inputs in montane soils increase with elevation: evidence from mercury isotope signatures Sci. Rep. 3 3322

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Garg V K 2005 Concurrent and Distributed Computing in Java (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Adams J P, Bell D and McKinlay J 2010 Neurocritical Care: A Guide to Practical Management (London: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Thiel-Bonney C and von Hofacker N 2016 Feeding Disorders in Infants and Young Children Regulatory Disorders in Infants: Assessment, Diagnosis, and Treatment ed M Cierpka (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 89–118

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 Superconductor Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J 2015 Light Pollution Shuts Down the Anti-Bat Defenses of Moths 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 1993 [FAA Employees’ Use of Government Vehicles for After-Hours Transportation] (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]

Pigott C 2016 School Resource Officers and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Discovering Trends of Expulsions in Public Schools Doctoral dissertation ( Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana)

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]

Cooper M 2017 When the Fire Fades New York Times AR1

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	Superconductor Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Supercond. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0953-2048
ISSN (online)	1361-6668
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Ceramics and Composites Materials Chemistry Metals and Alloys Condensed Matter Physics