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

Haberland H (2013) Looking from both sides. Nature 494:E1-2

A journal article with 2 authors

Schneider RA, Helms JA (2003) The cellular and molecular origins of beak morphology. Science 299:565–568

A journal article with 3 authors

Pascoli V, Turiault M, Lüscher C (2011) Reversal of cocaine-evoked synaptic potentiation resets drug-induced adaptive behaviour. Nature 481:71–75

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kessler JD, Valentine DL, Redmond MC, et al (2011) A persistent oxygen anomaly reveals the fate of spilled methane in the deep Gulf of Mexico. Science 331:312–315

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rowe P (2015) Essential Statistics for the Pharmaceutical Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Tian J (2015) Genetic Analyses of Wheat and Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding, Volume 2: Conditional QTL Analysis and MAS, 1st ed. 2015. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Granov A, Tiutin L, Schwarz T (2013) Lung Cancer. In: Granov A, Tiutin L, Schwarz T (eds) Positron Emission Tomography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–88

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

Hamilton K (2016) In Defence Of Wasps: Why Squashing Them Comes With A Sting In The Tale. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/in-defence-of-wasps-why-squashing-them-comes-with-a-sting-in-the-tale/. 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 (1992) The Civil Division, 1956-1972: Interview With Gregory J. Ahart, Henry Eschwege, and Victor L. Lowe. 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

Victoria FC (2017) One on One. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wines M (2017) 3 Lawsuits Filed Against White House Panel on Voter Fraud. New York Times A16

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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