How to format your references using the Technologies citation style

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

Xu, Z. Modernization: One Step at a Time. Nature 2011, 480, S90-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pérez-Gussinyé, M.; Watts, A.B. The Long-Term Strength of Europe and Its Implications for Plate-Forming Processes. Nature 2005, 436, 381–384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keith, D.W.; Parson, E.; Morgan, M.G. Research on Global Sun Block Needed Now. Nature 2010, 463, 426–427.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lotze, H.K.; Lenihan, H.S.; Bourque, B.J.; Bradbury, R.H.; Cooke, R.G.; Kay, M.C.; Kidwell, S.M.; Kirby, M.X.; Peterson, C.H.; Jackson, J.B.C. Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas. Science 2006, 312, 1806–1809.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D.M. World Wide Rave; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2009; ISBN 9781118258286.

An edited book

Nitrogen Cycling in the Americas: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences and Controls; Martinelli, L.A., Howarth, R.W., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2006; ISBN 9781402047176.

A chapter in an edited book

Schatzker, J. Fractures of the Humerus (12-A, B, and C). In The Rationale of Operative Fracture Care; Tile, M., Ed.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005; pp. 91–102 ISBN 9783540228509.

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 Technologies.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Comet Lovejoy Has Sugar And Alcohol (accessed on 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office Transportation: Bibliography of GAO Documents, January 1985-December 1988; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1989;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Garyan, D. Converging Origins: Never Forget What Happened in the Future. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Ivory, D.; Ruiz, R.R. G.M. Resists Expanding Victims’ Fund. New York Times 2014, B1.

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	Technologies
Abbreviation	Technologies (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2227-7080
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