How to format your references using the Journal of Aerosol Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Aerosol 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	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

Cuomo, S. (2004). Beyond the ivory tower. The sinews of war: ancient catapults. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5659), 771–772.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liu, L., & Edwards, S. V. (2015). Comment on “Statistical binning enables an accurate coalescent-based estimation of the avian tree.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6257), 171.

A journal article with 3 authors

Truog, R. D., Kesselheim, A. S., & Joffe, S. (2012). Research ethics. Paying patients for their tissue: the legacy of Henrietta Lacks. Science (New York, N.Y.), 337(6090), 37–38.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Comeau, S., Edmunds, P. J., Lantz, C. A., & Carpenter, R. C. (2014). Water flow modulates the response of coral reef communities to ocean acidification. Scientific Reports, 4, 6681.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lloret, J., Shulman, G., & Love, R. M. (2013). Condition and Health Indicators of Exploited Marine Fishes. John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Magnusson, C., Szymczak, D., & Brewster, S. (Eds.). (2012). Haptic and Audio Interaction Design: 7th International Conference, HAID 2012, Lund, Sweden, August 23-24, 2012. Proceedings (Vol. 7468). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Aiyer, A. S., Alvisi, L., & Bazzi, R. A. (2007). Bounded Wait-Free Implementation of Optimally Resilient Byzantine Storage Without (Unproven) Cryptographic Assumptions. In A. Pelc (Ed.), Distributed Computing: 21st International Symposium, DISC 2007, Lemesos, Cyprus, September 24-26, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 7–19). Springer.

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 Aerosol Science.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2017, May 19). Mount St Helens Is Rumbling Again, So Should We Be Worried? IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mount-st-helens-is-rumbling-again-so-should-we-be-worried/

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. (2003). Electronic Government: Progress in Promoting Adoption of Smart Card Technology (GAO-03-144). 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

Torres Garcia, A. C. (2015). The Impact of Health Insurance Coverage on the Use of Preventive Health Services and Healthy Behaviors: Evidence from Mexico’s Public Health Insurance Program “Seguro Popular” [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Kishkovsky, S. (2000, October 4). Sophie Koulomzin Dies at 96; Orthodox Christian Educator. New York Times, B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cuomo, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Cuomo, 2004; Liu & Edwards, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Liu & Edwards, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Comeau et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Aerosol Science
Abbreviation	J. Aerosol Sci.
ISSN (print)	0021-8502
Scope	Environmental Chemistry Pollution General Materials Science