How to format your references using the Fibers citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fibers. 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

Johns, A. The Birth of Scientific Reading. Nature 2001, 409, 287.

A journal article with 2 authors

McPhaden, M.J.; Zhang, D. Slowdown of the Meridional Overturning Circulation in the Upper Pacific Ocean. Nature 2002, 415, 603–608.

A journal article with 3 authors

Royo-Torres, R.; Cobos, A.; Alcalá, L. A Giant European Dinosaur and a New Sauropod Clade. Science 2006, 314, 1925–1927.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schön, J.H.; Dorget, M.; Beuran, F.C.; Xu, X.Z.; Arushanov, E.; Laguës, M.; Deville Cavellin, C. Field-Induced Superconductivity in a Spin-Ladder Cuprate. Science 2001, 293, 2430–2432.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bech, S.; Zacharov, N. Perceptual Audio Evaluation-Theory, Method and Application; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006; ISBN 9780470869253.

An edited book

Interactive Storytelling: First Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2008 Erfurt, Germany, November 26-29, 2008 Proceedings; Spierling, U., Szilas, N., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008; Vol. 5334; ISBN 9783540894247.

A chapter in an edited book

Mehrmohammadi, M. Arts Education in Iran. In Educating in the Arts: The Asian Experience: Twenty-Four Essays; Joubert, L., Ed.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; pp. 55–64 ISBN 9781402063862.

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 Fibers.

Blog post

Andrews, R. US And China Ratify Paris Climate Deal In “Moment We Decided To Save Our Planet” Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/us-and-china-ratify-paris-climate-deal-in-moment-we-decided-to-save-our-planet/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Telecommunications: Full Adoption of Sound Transition Planning Practices by GSA and Selected Agencies Could Improve Planning Efforts; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jones, E. Leadership Practices in K-12 Public Schools for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: A Qualitative Study. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University: Washington, DC, 2019.

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

Robertson, C.; Walsh, M.W. Debt Crisis? Bankruptcy Fears? See Jefferson County, Ala. New York Times 2011, A13.

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	Fibers
Abbreviation	Fibers (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2079-6439
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