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

Koenig R (2000) EUROPEAN SCIENCE: Urgent Call for Research Overhaul. Science 289:523a–4a

A journal article with 2 authors

Kennel C, Dressler A (2014) Space science. Coping with uncertainty in space science planning. Science 343:140–141

A journal article with 3 authors

Jackson A, Mavoori J, Fetz EE (2006) Long-term motor cortex plasticity induced by an electronic neural implant. Nature 444:56–60

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mattiucci N, Bloemer MJ, Aközbek N, D’Aguanno G (2013) Impedance matched thin metamaterials make metals absorbing. Sci Rep 3:3203

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nedoma J, Stehlík J, Hlaváček I, et al (2011) Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biomechanics of Human Skeletal Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Greenberg RA, Goldberg AM, Rodríguez-Arias D (2016) Ethical Issues in Pediatric Organ Transplantation. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Cuenca MÁ, Reza M (2013) CUBEN, A Novel Bioreactor for the Removal of Nutrients. In: Coca-Prados J, Gutiérrez-Cervelló G (eds) Economic Sustainability and Environmental Protection in Mediterranean Countries through Clean Manufacturing Methods. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 63–92

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 (2016) Breast Cancer Campaigns Might Be Pink, But Men Get It Too. In: IFLScience. 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 (1980) U.S.-Japan Cooperative Efforts in Energy Research and Development. 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

Fay C (2017) Aposematic Variation and the Evolution of Warning Coloration in Mammals. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (2009) Even the Reliable Must Face the Inevitable. New York Times SP2

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

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