How to format your references using the Science and Technology of Advanced Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 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

[1]

Zhou M 2013 Materials science. Exceptional properties by design Science 339 1161–2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Maroteaux M and Mameli M 2011 Neuroscience. Synaptic switch and social status Science 334 608–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Assefa S, Xia F and Vlasov Y A 2010 Reinventing germanium avalanche photodetector for nanophotonic on-chip optical interconnects Nature 464 80–4

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Hu J, Shibata Y, Voss C, Shemesh T, Li Z, Coughlin M, Kozlov M M, Rapoport T A and Prinz W A 2008 Membrane proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum induce high-curvature tubules Science 319 1247–50

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Solomon R 2016 The Art of Client Service (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc)

An edited book

[1]

Ismail M and González D R D E L 2006 Radio Design in Nanometer Technologies (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gao L, Yu S, Luan T H and Zhou W 2015 Data Dissemination in Delay Tolerant Networks with Geographic Information Delay Tolerant Networks SpringerBriefs in Computer Science ed S Yu, T H Luan and W Zhou (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 53–67

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 Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B 2016 British DNA Isn’t Quite As British As You’d Expect 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 1996 Air Force Aircraft: Consolidating Fighter Squadrons Could Reduce Costs (Washington, DC: 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

[1]

Bailey S M 2008 Content Assessment in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning: Meaning Error Diagnosis for English as a Second Language Doctoral dissertation (Columbus, OH: Ohio State 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

[1]

Castle S 2017 As Clock Ticks on Exit From E.U., Britain Seems Adrift New York Times A6

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	Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Abbreviation	Sci. Technol. Adv. Mater.
ISSN (print)	1468-6996
ISSN (online)	1878-5514
Scope	General Materials Science