How to format your references using the Technovation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Technovation. 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	Download the output style file
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

Berger, L.R., 2013. The mosaic nature of Australopithecus sediba. Introduction. Science 340, 163–165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eaton, D.W., Frederiksen, A., 2007. Seismic evidence for convection-driven motion of the North American plate. Nature 446, 428–431.

A journal article with 3 authors

Euler, T., Detwiler, P.B., Denk, W., 2002. Directionally selective calcium signals in dendrites of starburst amacrine cells. Nature 418, 845–852.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dezawa, M., Ishikawa, H., Itokazu, Y., Yoshihara, T., Hoshino, M., Takeda, S.-I., Ide, C., Nabeshima, Y.-I., 2005. Bone marrow stromal cells generate muscle cells and repair muscle degeneration. Science 309, 314–317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, L.S., Simões, R., Gervásio, H., 2012. Design of Steel Structures. Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.

An edited book

Moore, M., Moore, R.S. (Eds.), 2015. New Meanings for Marketing in a New Millennium: Proceedings of the 2001 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference, Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Safa, M., Watts, M., 2014. Energy Inputs In Pest Control Using Pesticides In New Zealand, in: Pimentel, D., Peshin, R. (Eds.), Integrated Pest Management: Pesticide Problems, Vol.3. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 99–126.

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 Technovation.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Sea Creatures Will Get Bigger And Bigger (If We Don’t Eat Them First) [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sea-creatures-will-get-bigger-and-bigger-if-we-don-t-eat-them-first/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1987. University Funding: Information on the Role of Peer Review at NSF and NIH (No. RCED-87-87FS). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yu, B., 2013. Periodic Motions and Bifurcation Tree in a Periodically Excited Oscillator with Quadratic Nonlinearity (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Mets, Shedding Veterans, Send Walker to Brewers. New York Times SP5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Berger, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Berger, 2013; Eaton and Frederiksen, 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Eaton and Frederiksen, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Dezawa et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Technovation
Abbreviation	Technovation
ISSN (print)	0166-4972
Scope	Management of Technology and Innovation General Engineering