How to format your references using the Journal of the American Ceramic Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Ceramic Society. 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

Osterholm MT. A weapon the world needs. Nature. 2005;435(7041):417–418.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zeh JA, Zeh DW. Outbred embryos rescue inbred half-siblings in mixed-paternity broods of live-bearing females. Nature. 2006;439(7073):201–203.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baer B, Armitage SAO, Boomsma JJ. Sperm storage induces an immunity cost in ants. Nature. 2006;441(7095):872–875.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim H, Lim H-D, Kim S-W, et al. Scalable functionalized graphene nano-platelets as tunable cathodes for high-performance lithium rechargeable batteries. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1506.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chandru V, Hooker J. Optimization Methods for Logical Inference. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1999

An edited book

Knepper TP, Lange FT, editors. Polyfluorinated Chemicals and Transformation Products. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012

A chapter in an edited book

Kakizuka A. VCP, a Major ATPase in the Cells, as a Novel Drug Target for Currently Incurable Disorders. In: Nakao K, Minato N, Uemoto S, eds. Innovative Medicine: Basic Research and Development. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015:61–69.

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 the American Ceramic Society.

Blog post

Andrew E. Coming To A Field Near You? The ‘Body Farms’ Where Human Remains Decompose In The Name Of Science. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Critical Infrastructure Protection: Comprehensive Strategy Can Draw on Year 2000 Experiences. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huynhle M. High-Fat Diet-Induced Obesity Increases Resilience against Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection in Drosophila Larvae. 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

Shpigel B. From Hockey 101 to a Ph.D. New York Times. 2017;D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 the American Ceramic Society
Abbreviation	J. Am. Ceram. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0002-7820
ISSN (online)	1551-2916
Scope	Ceramics and Composites Materials Chemistry