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

Vousden, K. H. (2005). “Apoptosis. p53 and PUMA: a deadly duo,” Science, 309, 1685–1686.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fortey, R., and Chatterton, B. (2003). “A Devonian trilobite with an eyeshade,” Science, 301, 1689.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ortega, F., Escaso, F., and Sanz, J. L. (2010). “A bizarre, humped Carcharodontosauria (Theropoda) from the lower cretaceous of Spain,” Nature, 467, 203–206.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Harvey, C. D., Yasuda, R., Zhong, H., and Svoboda, K. (2008). “The spread of Ras activity triggered by activation of a single dendritic spine,” Science, 321, 136–140.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weston, P. (2006). Bioinformatics Software Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

ten Donkelaar, H. J. (2014). Clinical Neuroembryology: Development and Developmental Disorders of the Human Central Nervous System, (M. Lammens and A. Hori, Eds.) Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2nd ed. 2014., XVIII, 659 p. 475 illus., 300 illus. in color pages.

A chapter in an edited book

Reinarz, J. (2007). “Corpus Curricula: Medical Education and the Voluntary Hospital Movement,” In H. Whitaker, C. U. M. Smith, and S. Finger (Eds.), Brain, Mind and Medicine: Essays in Eighteenth-Century Neuroscience, Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 43–52.

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

O`Callaghan, J. (2016). China Is Going To Launch A New Experimental Space Station Today, IFLScience, Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-is-launching-a-new-experimental-space-station-today/, (date last viewed: 30-Oct-18). Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/space/china-is-launching-a-new-experimental-space-station-today/

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). Federal Research: NIH and EPA Need to Improve Conflict of Interest Reviews for Research Arrangements with Private Sector Entities ( No. GAO-05-191), 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

Bao, J. (2010). Design enhancements in repetitive and interative learning control (Doctoral dissertation), Columbia University, New York, NY.

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). “The Mets Believe Cabrera Could Be a Keeper,” New York Times,.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vousden, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Fortey and Chatterton, 2003; Vousden, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Fortey and Chatterton, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Harvey et al., 2008)

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