How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Research and Technology citation style

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

Fuyuno, I. (2005). Ancient foil maker wraps up mobile-phone market. Nature, 436(7052), 775.

A journal article with 2 authors

Futahashi, R., & Fujiwara, H. (2008). Juvenile hormone regulates butterfly larval pattern switches. Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5866), 1061.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Z., Huang, X., & Lu, H. (2014). Association between red blood cell transfusion and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in preterm infants. Scientific Reports, 4, 4340.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Shen, Z., Zhao, Z., Peng, H., & Nygren, M. (2002). Formation of tough interlocking microstructures in silicon nitride ceramics by dynamic ripening. Nature, 417(6886), 266–269.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yaacoub, E. E., & Dawy, Z. (2012). Resource Allocation in Uplink OFDMA Wireless Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bressan, A. (2007). Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws: Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 14–21, 2003 (D. Serre, M. Williams, K. Zumbrun, & P. Marcati, Eds.; Vol. 1911). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Masoni, M., & Guelfi, M. R. (2011). Tutor online. In M. R. Guelfi, M. Masoni, A. Conti, & G. F. Gensini (Eds.), E-learning in sanità: Progettare, produrre ed erogare corsi di formazione online per l’area sanitaria (pp. 23–29). 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 Applied Research and Technology.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, December 16). Deep-Sea Ghost Shark Caught On Camera For The First Time. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (2004). Electronic Disability Claims Processing: SSA Needs to Address Risks Associated with Its Accelerated Systems Development Strategy (GAO-04-466). 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

Nikolova, S. (2010). Health insurance transitions of SCHIP-eligible children in response to higher public premiums [Doctoral dissertation]. University of North Carolina.

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

Vecsey, G. (2010, February 10). For Hughes, Gold Medal Never Trumped Family Life. New York Times, B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Futahashi & Fujiwara, 2008; Fuyuno, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Futahashi & Fujiwara, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Shen et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Research and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Res. Technol.
ISSN (print)	1665-6423
Scope	General Engineering