How to format your references using the Advanced Powder Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Powder 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	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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

J.S. Kargel, Planetary science. Proof for water, hints of life?, Science 306 (2004) 1689–1691.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.R. Milad, G.J. Quirk, Neurons in medial prefrontal cortex signal memory for fear extinction, Nature 420 (2002) 70–74.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Cronberg, R. Natcheva, K. Hedlund, Microarthropods mediate sperm transfer in mosses, Science 313 (2006) 1255.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I. Whitehouse, O.J. Rando, J. Delrow, T. Tsukiyama, Chromatin remodelling at promoters suppresses antisense transcription, Nature 450 (2007) 1031–1035.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

W. Doerfler, Foreign DNA in Mammalian Systems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

R. Matteotti, S.W. Ashley, eds., Minimally Invasive Surgical Oncology: State-of- the-Art Cancer Management, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

S. Văduva, V.T. Alistar, A.R. Thomas, C.D. Lupiţu, D.S. Neagoie, Management of Risks, in: V.T. Alistar, A.R. Thomas, C.D. Lupiţu, D.S. Neagoie (Eds.), Moral Leadership in Business: Towards a Business Culture of Integrity, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 77–92.

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 Advanced Powder Technology.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, Astronomers Solve Decades-Old Mystery Of Ancient Lonely Stars, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/lonely-stars-find-companions/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Aviation Safety: Proposals to Enhance Aircraft Tracking and Flight Data Recovery May Aid Accident Investigation, but Challenges Remain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.M. Thomas, Perceptions of educational leaders’ efficacy and leadership capacity upon preliminary administrative credential completion at California State University, Long Beach, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2016.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Searching for the Mainstream, New York Times (2017) A27.

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	Advanced Powder Technology
Abbreviation	Adv. Powder Technol.
ISSN (print)	0921-8831
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Mechanics of Materials