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

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

Sarewitz, D. Better All the Time. Nature 2010, 463, 607.

A journal article with 2 authors

Romanowicz, B.; Giardini, D. Geophysics. The Future of Permanent Seismic Networks. Science 2001, 293, 2000–2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldwin, M.P.; Dameris, M.; Shepherd, T.G. Atmosphere. How Will the Stratosphere Affect Climate Change? Science 2007, 316, 1576–1577.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cheong, I.; Huang, X.; Bettegowda, C.; Diaz, L.A., Jr; Kinzler, K.W.; Zhou, S.; Vogelstein, B. A Bacterial Protein Enhances the Release and Efficacy of Liposomal Cancer Drugs. Science 2006, 314, 1308–1311.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kobilinsky, L.; Liotti, T.F.; Oeser-Sweat, J. DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2004; ISBN 9780471681915.

An edited book

Marques, S.P.C. Computational Viscoelasticity; Creus, G.J., Ed.; SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; ISBN 9783642253102.

A chapter in an edited book

Celikyilmaz, A.; Türksen, I.B. Modeling Uncertainty with Improved Fuzzy Functions. In Modeling Uncertainty with Fuzzy Logic: With Recent Theory and Applications; Türksen, I.B., Ed.; Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009; pp. 149–215 ISBN 9783540899235.

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 Composites Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S. The Invisible Beauty of Wireless Networks Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/invisible-beauty-wireless-networks/ (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 Information Technology: DHS’s Human Capital Plan Is Largely Consistent with Relevant Guidance, but Improvements and Implementation Steps Are Still Needed; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lund, B.C. Physiological Response to Cycling at Different Pedal Rates during High Intensity Interval Training. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 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

Williams, J. A Guide to Writing Guides. New York Times 2017, BR4.

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 Composites Science
Abbreviation	J. Compos. Sci.
ISSN (online)	2504-477X
Scope