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

Vinge, J.D. Murphy’s Cat. Nature 2000, 408, 649.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roediger, H.L., 3rd; DeSoto, K.A. Cognitive Psychology. Forgetting the Presidents. Science 2014, 346, 1106–1109.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe, K.N.; Taeb, M.; Okusu, H. Biotechnology. Japanese Controversies over Transgenic Crop Regulation. Science 2004, 305, 1572.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hornekaer, L.; Baurichter, A.; Petrunin, V.V.; Field, D.; Luntz, A.C. Importance of Surface Morphology in Interstellar H2 Formation. Science 2003, 302, 1943–1946.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Crane, S. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dao; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2013; ISBN 9781118323731.

An edited book

Rogala, A. Communication in Organizational Environments: Functions, Determinants and Areas of Influence; Bialowas, S., Ed.; Palgrave Macmillan UK: London, 2016; ISBN 9781137547019.

A chapter in an edited book

Duhovnik, J.; Demšar, I.; Drešar, P. 3D-Modelling Software Packages. In Space Modeling with SolidWorks and NX; Demsar, I., Drešar, P., Eds.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; pp. 71–96 ISBN 9783319038612.

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. Crowd Sourced Science To Revive A Space Probe (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 Federal Research Grants: Compensation Paid to Graduate Students at the University of California; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang, G. Roles of Serotonin 2A Receptor in a Serotonin Syndrome. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University: Boca Raton, FL, 2010.

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

Scott, M. Apple Chief Angrily Defends Tax Practices Against a ‘Wrongheaded’ Ruling. New York Times 2016, B2.

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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