How to format your references using the Acta Materialia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Materialia. 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	Download the output style file
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]

R.A. Diehl, Archaeology. Patterns of cultural primacy, Science 307 (2005) 1055–1056.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.L. Dustin, M. Meyer-Hermann, Immunology. Antigen feast or famine, Science 335 (2012) 408–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H.G. Parker, L. Kruglyak, E.A. Ostrander, Molecular genetics: DNA analysis of a putative dog clone, Nature 440 (2006) E1-2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E.A. Galburt, S.W. Grill, A. Wiedmann, L. Lubkowska, J. Choy, E. Nogales, M. Kashlev, C. Bustamante, Backtracking determines the force sensitivity of RNAP II in a factor-dependent manner, Nature 446 (2007) 820–823.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Nedoma, J. Stehlík, I. Hlaváček, J. Daněk, T. Dostálová, P. Přečková, Mathematical and Computational Methods in Biomechanics of Human Skeletal Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

W. Shen, J. Luo, Z. Lin, J.-P.A. Barthès, Q. Hao, eds., Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design III: 10th International Conference, CSCWD 2006, Nanjing, China, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.-L. Lin, C. Mao, Role of Sphingolipids in Non-melanoma Skin Cancer, in: Y.A. Hannun, C. Luberto, C. Mao, L.M. Obeid (Eds.), Bioactive Sphingolipids in Cancer Biology and Therapy, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 107–122.

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 Acta Materialia.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Vaccinating Against Measles Could Also Protect You From Other Infectious Diseases, IFLScience (2015).

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, Computer Security: Hackers Penetrate DOD Computer Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.A. Gates, Best Practices and Strategies for Financial Literacy in Faith-Based Organizations, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

J. Gorman, More Than the Sum of Its Parts, New York Times (2017) D6.

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	Acta Materialia
Abbreviation	Acta Mater.
ISSN (print)	1359-6454
Scope	Ceramics and Composites Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Metals and Alloys Polymers and Plastics