How to format your references using the 3D-Printed Materials and Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 3D-Printed Materials and Systems. 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

Simmons RM (2000) Prophets without honour? Nature 407:839

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan H, Romanowicz B (2010) Lithospheric layering in the North American craton. Nature 466:1063–1068

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin J, Yang X, Zheng Y (2014) Influence of increasing combustion temperature on the AMS 14C dating of modern crop phytoliths. Sci Rep 4:6511

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Wienholds E, Schulte-Merker S, Walderich B, Plasterk RHA (2002) Target-selected inactivation of the zebrafish rag1 gene. Science 297:99–102

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

West BJ, Griffin LA (2005) Biodynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

D’Atri A (2008) Interdisciplinary Aspects of Information Systems Studies: The Italian Association for Information Systems. Physica-Verlag HD, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Eaton M (2007) Evolutionary Humanoid Robotics: Past, Present and Future. In: Lungarella M, Iida F, Bongard J, Pfeifer R (eds) 50 Years of Artificial Intelligence: Essays Dedicated to the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 42–52

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 3D-Printed Materials and Systems.

Blog post

Davis J (2017) Doctors Warn About New Year “Detoxes.” In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-warn-about-new-year-detoxes/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2002) Information Technology: DLA Needs to Strengthen Its Investment Management Capability. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Allen HT (2013) The Songs of Lori Laitman: An Analysis of Sunflowers and Early Snow. Doctoral dissertation, 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

David Kelly: David Kelly is an editor of The Book Review (1987) PUGILISTS’ PROGRESS. New York Times 78

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	3D-Printed Materials and Systems
ISSN (online)	2363-8389
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