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

Spence, J.C.H., 2003. Materials science. Oxygen in crystals--seeing is believing. Science 299, 839–841.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seelig, J.D., Jayaraman, V., 2013. Feature detection and orientation tuning in the Drosophila central complex. Nature 503, 262–266.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, S., Wong, P., Coulombe, P.A., 2006. A keratin cytoskeletal protein regulates protein synthesis and epithelial cell growth. Nature 441, 362–365.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Montagna, P., McCulloch, M., Taviani, M., Mazzoli, C., Vendrell, B., 2006. Phosphorus in cold-water corals as a proxy for seawater nutrient chemistry. Science 312, 1788–1791.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy, D.B., Davidson, M.W., 2012. Fundamentals of Light Microscopy and Electronic Imaging. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sun, F., Li, T., Li, H. (Eds.), 2014. Foundations and Applications of Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, Beijing, China, Dec 2012 (ISKE 2012), Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sym, S.D., 2015. Basal Lineages of Green Algae – Their Diversity and Phylogeny, in: Ohtsuka, S., Suzaki, T., Horiguchi, T., Suzuki, N., Not, F. (Eds.), Marine Protists: Diversity and Dynamics. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 89–105.

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. Coming To A River Near You: The Invasion Of The Intersex Demon Shrimp [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1994. Aerospace Guidance and Metrology Center: Cost Growth and Other Factors Affect Closure and Privatization (No. NSIAD-95-60). 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

Klyce, L.R., 2008. Assessing parent-child agreement on an eating disorder symptom questionnaire (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Berkman, S., 2017. A Beauty of a Pitchers’ Duel? Try an Ugly Slugfest. New York Times D5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Spence, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Seelig and Jayaraman, 2013; Spence, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Seelig and Jayaraman, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Montagna et al., 2006)

About the journal

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