How to format your references using the The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 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

Schiermeier, Q. (2001). “Network boost for southeast Europe,” Nature, 410, 619.

A journal article with 2 authors

Odorizzi, P. M., and Wherry, E. J. (2013). “Immunology. An interferon paradox,” Science, 340, 155–156.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pronin, S. V., Reiher, C. A., and Shenvi, R. A. (2013). “Stereoinversion of tertiary alcohols to tertiary-alkyl isonitriles and amines,” Nature, 501, 195–199.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ramesh, P., Baroji, Y. F., Reihani, S. N. S., Stamou, D., Oddershede, L. B., and Bendix, P. M. (2013). “FBAR syndapin 1 recognizes and stabilizes highly curved tubular membranes in a concentration dependent manner,” Sci. Rep., 3, 1565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bersuker, I. B. (2010). Electronic Structure and Properties of Transition Metal Compounds, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Xu, F. (2011). Introduction to Skin Biothermomechanics and Thermal Pain, (T. Lu, Ed.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, IX, 422 p pages.

A chapter in an edited book

Jia, T., Zhao, W., and Wang, L. (2007). “Pr $\mathcal{SH}$ : A Belief Description Logic,” In N. T. Nguyen, A. Grzech, R. J. Howlett, and L. C. Jain (Eds.), Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: Technologies and Applications: First KES International Symposium, KES-AMSTA 2007, Wroclaw, Poland, May 31– June 1, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–41.

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 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015). Evaporation-Powered Engine Propels Mini Cars, IFLScience, Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/evaporation-powered-engine-propels-mini-cars/, (date last viewed: 30-Oct-18). Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/evaporation-powered-engine-propels-mini-cars/

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 (2005). International Air Passengers: Staffing Model for Airport Inspections Personnel Can Be Improved ( No. GAO-05-663), Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gunathilaka, D. (2015). Compliance with dietary restrictions among African American older adults with chronic kidney disease in a nursing home setting (Doctoral dissertation), California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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). “Still Standing, if Barely Upright, Cubs Face a Quick Turnaround,” New York Times,.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Odorizzi and Wherry, 2013; Schiermeier, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Odorizzi and Wherry, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Ramesh et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Abbreviation	J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
ISSN (print)	0001-4966
ISSN (online)	1520-8524
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Acoustics and Ultrasonics