How to format your references using the Advanced Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Science. 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 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. H. Beltrami, “Paleoclimate. Earth’s Long-Term Memory,” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, no. 5579 (2002): 206–207.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. W. H. Steel, and R. A. Walker, “Measuring Dipolar Width across Liquid-Liquid Interfaces with ‘Molecular Rulers,’” Nature 424, no. 6946 (2003): 296–299.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. M. C. Wang, E. J. O’Rourke, and G. Ruvkun, “Fat Metabolism Links Germline Stem Cells and Longevity in C. Elegans,” Science (New York, N.Y.) 322, no. 5903 (2008): 957–960.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. B. J. Reynwar, G. Illya, V. A. Harmandaris, M. M. Müller, K. Kremer, and M. Deserno, “Aggregation and Vesiculation of Membrane Proteins by Curvature-Mediated Interactions,” Nature 447, no. 7143 (2007): 461–464.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. V. Kühn, “Wireless Communications over MIMO Channels,” Wireless Communications over MIMO Channels, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK 2006.

An edited book

1. Y. Shmaliy, Ed., “Continuous-Time Systems,” Continuous-Time Systems, Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. A. Olivieri, and E. Pitacco, “Life Insurance: Pricing,” in Introduction to Insurance Mathematics: Technical and Financial Features of Risk Transfers, edited by E. Pitacco, Springer International Publishing: Cham 2015, pp. 217–270.

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 Science.

Blog post

1. J. Fang, “Killer Cholera Bacterium Stabs Others With Tiny Spear, Steals DNA,” Killer Cholera Bacterium Stabs Others With Tiny Spear, Steals DNA, IFLScience 2015.

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, “Federal Communications Commission: Regulatory Fee Process Needs to Be Updated,” Federal Communications Commission: Regulatory Fee Process Needs to Be Updated, U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. J. Goldstein, “Murder in Colonial Albany: European and Indian Responses to Cross-Cultural Murders,” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2012.

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. E. Barry, “Fraud Culture Rises in India, Aiming at U.S,” Fraud Culture Rises in India, Aiming at U.S, 2017.

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 Science
ISSN (online)	2198-3844
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