How to format your references using the Journal of Analytical Science and Technology citation style

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

Gershon D. Proteomics technologies: probing the proteome. Nature. 2003 Jul 31;424(6948):581–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Merritt DJ, Dixon KW. Conservation. Restoration seed banks--a matter of scale. Science. 2011 Apr 22;332(6028):424–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mochizuki K, Matsumoto M, Ohmine I. Defect pair separation as the controlling step in homogeneous ice melting. Nature. 2013 Jun 20;498(7454):350–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Harter AV, Gardner KA, Falush D, Lentz DL, Bye RA, Rieseberg LH. Origin of extant domesticated sunflowers in eastern North America. Nature. 2004 Jul 8;430(6996):201–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Radwanska M, Stankiewicz A, Wosatko A, Pamin J. Plate and Shell Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Brugali D, editor. Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Desai SS, Wong B. Diagnostic Immunology. In: Hospenthal DR, Rinaldi MG, editors. Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Mycoses. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2008. p. 53–80.

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 Analytical Science and Technology.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Learn How To Manage What Facebook And Twitter Know About You [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/learn-how-to-manage-what-facebook-and-twitter-know-about-you/

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. Information Systems: Agencies Overlook Security Controls During Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 May. Report No.: IMTEC-88-11S.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Morales CJ. Can early-life activity behavior predict adult compliance with an exercise program in later life? [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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

Wagner J. Mets Fall to Braves, but Help Is Coming as Cespedes Is Set to Return. New York Times. 2017 Jun 10;D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2003; Merritt and Dixon 2011).

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

Two authors: (Merritt and Dixon 2011)
Three or more authors: (Harter et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Analytical Science and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Anal. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (online)	2093-3371
Scope