How to format your references using the Superconductor Science and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Superconductor 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

[1]

Cyranoski D 2002 Satellite set to keep track of whales Nature 415 354

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Diaz R J and Rosenberg R 2008 Spreading dead zones and consequences for marine ecosystems Science 321 926–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yang C, Zhong Z and Lieber C M 2005 Encoding electronic properties by synthesis of axial modulation-doped silicon nanowires Science 310 1304–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Almany G R, Berumen M L, Thorrold S R, Planes S and Jones G P 2007 Local replenishment of coral reef fish populations in a marine reserve Science 316 742–4

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Richards A and Dafydd H 2014 Key Notes on Plastic Surgery (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Joshi K, Siegle M, Stoelinga M and D’Argenio P R 2013 Quantitative Evaluation of Systems: 10th International Conference, QEST 2013, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 27-30, 2013. Proceedings vol 8054 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Goubault-Larrecq J 2008 Simulation Hemi-metrics between Infinite-State Stochastic Games Foundations of Software Science and Computational Structures: 11th International Conference, FOSSACS 2008, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 29 - April 6, 2008. Proceedings Lecture Notes in Computer Science ed R Amadio (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 50–65

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 Superconductor Science and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E 2015 First Large Scale Solar Power To Be Built In China’s Gobi Desert 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 2009 Higher Education: Issues Related to Law School Cost and Access (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]

Aloe-Chase S T 2008 Family member perspectives on collaboration: An exploratory study Doctoral dissertation (Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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]

Schwartz J and Blinder A 2017 Houston Faces Urgent Task: Moving Mountains of Storm Debris New York Times A13

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	Superconductor Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Supercond. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0953-2048
ISSN (online)	1361-6668
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Ceramics and Composites Materials Chemistry Metals and Alloys Condensed Matter Physics