How to format your references using the 2D Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 2D 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

Staunton H 2008 Arousal by stimulation of deep-brain nuclei Nature 452 E1; discussion E1-2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wallenfang M R and Matunis E 2003 Developmental biology. Orienting stem cells Science 301 1490–1

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Matsukage K N, Jing Z and Karato S-I 2005 Density of hydrous silicate melt at the conditions of Earth’s deep upper mantle Nature 438 488–91

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Tang W, Lu Y, Tian Q-Y, Zhang Y, Guo F-J, Liu G-Y, Syed N M, Lai Y, Lin E A, Kong L, Su J, Yin F, Ding A-H, Zanin-Zhorov A, Dustin M L, Tao J, Craft J, Yin Z, Feng J Q, Abramson S B, Yu X-P and Liu C-J 2011 The growth factor progranulin binds to TNF receptors and is therapeutic against inflammatory arthritis in mice Science 332 478–84

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kolb R W 2011 Sovereign Debt (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Boukas E K and Malhamé R P 2005 Analysis, Control and Optimization of Complex Dynamic Systems (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wang Y, Abe S, Latham S and Mora P 2006 Implementation of Particle-scale Rotation in the 3-D Lattice Solid Model Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part I Pageoph Topical Volumes ed X-C Yin, P Mora, A Donnellan and M Matsu’ura (Basel: Birkhäuser) pp 1769–85

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 2D Materials.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K 2014 The Spookiest Places in the Universe 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 2008 Information Technology: Demand for the Social Security Administration’s Electronic Data Exchanges Is Growing and Presents Future Challenges (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]

Yelkenci S 2017 Algorithmic Music Composition Using Linear Algebra Doctoral dissertation (Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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]

Kelly K 2017 Trump Has Stocks Up. Some Funds Are Leery New York Times B1

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	2D Materials
ISSN (online)	2053-1583
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