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 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]

Hartwig J F 2008 Carbon-heteroatom bond formation catalysed by organometallic complexes Nature 455 314–22

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sanchez A and Golding I 2013 Genetic determinants and cellular constraints in noisy gene expression Science 342 1188–93

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tomonaga M, Uwano Y and Saito T 2014 How dolphins see the world: a comparison with chimpanzees and humans Sci. Rep. 4 3717

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Richter S, Geldner N, Schrader J, Wolters H, Stierhof Y-D, Rios G, Koncz C, Robinson D G and Jürgens G 2007 Functional diversification of closely related ARF-GEFs in protein secretion and recycling Nature 448 488–92

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kuzmeski M 2009 The Connectors (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Muralikrishnan B 2009 Computational Surface and Roundness Metrology ed J Raja (London: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Halabchi F 2009 Doping in Combat Sports Combat Sports Medicine ed W A Wallace, R R Wroble, N Maffulli and R Kordi (London: Springer) pp 55–72

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]

Hale T 2016 Cassini Captures Gorgeous Shots Of Two Moons Peeking Through Saturn’s Rings 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 1991 Aviation Safety: Problems Persist in FAA’s Inspection Program (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]

Emale J M 2010 An examination of how conglomerates impact small-medium enterprises in their relationship Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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]

Kovaleski S F 2013 Supervisors Of Gunman Were Told Of Issues New York Times A10

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
Scope