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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Springer, T.A. Immunology. Retrospective: César Milstein (1927-2002). Science 2002, 296, 1253.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Sakaba, T.; Neher, E. Direct Modulation of Synaptic Vesicle Priming by GABA(B) Receptor Activation at a Glutamatergic Synapse. Nature 2003, 424, 775–778.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Wang, K.; Dickinson, R.E.; Liang, S. Clear Sky Visibility Has Decreased over Land Globally from 1973 to 2007. Science 2009, 323, 1468–1470.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Gerber, L.R.; Morissette, L.; Kaschner, K.; Pauly, D. Ecology. Should Whales Be Culled to Increase Fishery Yield? Science 2009, 323, 880–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Machner, H. Einführung in Die Kern- Und Elementarteilchenphysik; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2005; ISBN 9783527662371.
An edited book
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Kussul, E. Neural Networks and Micromechanics; Baidyk, T., Wunsch, D.C., Eds.; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; ISBN 9783642025341.
A chapter in an edited book
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Halvorsen, O.H.; Clarke, D. The I/O Kit Framework. In OS X and iOS Kernel Programming; Clarke, D., Ed.; Apress: Berkeley, CA, 2011; pp. 51–68 ISBN 9781430235361.

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
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Hamilton, K. Copper Is Great At Killing Superbugs – So Why Don’t Hospitals Use It? (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
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Government Accountability Office How Funds Granted to the Eisenhower College and the Rayburn Library Were Spent; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1976;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
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Romanek, J.L. The Relative Influence of Sensation Seeking and Normal Narcissism on Academic Cheating in Emerging Adults. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University: Scottsdale, AZ, 2009.

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
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Feeney, K. Takeout That Moved On. New York Times 2009, NJ11.

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 titleTechnologies
AbbreviationTechnologies (Basel)
ISSN (online)2227-7080
Scope

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