How to format your references using the The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 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

Merryfield B (2005) Ocean science. Ocean mixing in 10 steps. Science 308:641–642

A journal article with 2 authors

Loayza D, De Lange T (2003) POT1 as a terminal transducer of TRF1 telomere length control. Nature 423:1013–1018

A journal article with 3 authors

Koren I, Dagan G, Altaratz O (2014) From aerosol-limited to invigoration of warm convective clouds. Science 344:1143–1146

A journal article with 5 or more authors

He L, Lu X-Y, Jolly AF, et al (2003) Spongiform degeneration in mahoganoid mutant mice. Science 299:710–712

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schorn C, Taylor B (2004) NMR Spectroscopy: Data Acquisition. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Senani R (2013) Current Feedback Operational Amplifiers and Their Applications. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Privat M, Warner R (2011) Working with Data Objects. In: Warner R (ed) Pro Core Data for iOS: Data Access and Persistence Engine for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp 129–180

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 The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Forces of Evolution. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/forces-evolution/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1990) Information Technology: DOD’s Federal Logistics Data on Compact Disc Program. 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

An D (2017) Improved Flotation of Bastnaesite and Chalcopyrite. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Vecsey G (2011) Seeing a Former Champion Beyond His Combative Side. New York Times B18

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	The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Adv. Manuf. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0268-3768
ISSN (online)	1433-3015
Scope	Computer Science Applications Software Control and Systems Engineering Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering