How to format your references using the Journal of Advanced Ceramics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Advanced Ceramics. 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]

Kivelson MG. Does Enceladus govern magnetospheric dynamics at Saturn? Science 2006, 311: 1391–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Costache MV, Valenzuela SO. Experimental spin ratchet. Science 2010, 330: 1645–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hao X, Martin-Rouault L, Cui M. A self-adaptive method for creating high efficiency communication channels through random scattering media. Sci Rep 2014, 4: 5874.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Tarassov K, Messier V, Landry CR, et al. An in vivo map of the yeast protein interactome. Science 2008, 320: 1465–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Castillo E, Cobo A, Jubete F, et al. Orthogonal Sets and Polar Methods in Linear Algebra. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999.

An edited book

[1]

Silverman H, Ruggles DF, editors. Intangible Heritage Embodied. New York, NY, Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Fenner S, Green F, Homer S, et al. Bounds on the Power of Constant-Depth Quantum Circuits. Liśkiewicz M, Reischuk R, editors. In: Fundamentals of Computation Theory: 15th International Symposium, FCT 2005, Lübeck, Germany, August 17-20, 2005. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer; 2005: 44–55.

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 Journal of Advanced Ceramics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Watch A Baby Pygmy Hippo Learn To Swim.

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. Expenditures for Telephone Services and Adequacy of Controls Over Such Services. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Crane CC. A Qualitative Study on the Preferred Working Environment of Southern California Secondary Teachers with Experience in Both a District Traditional School and a District Charter School. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

Kelly AL. It’s No Fun, but It May Save Your Life. New York Times 1999: G9.

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	Journal of Advanced Ceramics
ISSN (print)	2226-4108
ISSN (online)	2227-8508
Scope