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]

K. Zala, Careers in behavioral science. Public opinion research: measuring happiness, Science. 316 (2007) 1060–1061.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R.H. Tedford, C.R. Harington, An Arctic mammal fauna from the Early Pliocene of North America, Nature. 425 (2003) 388–390.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.J. Hamilton, R.S. Walker, D.C. Kesler, Crash and rebound of indigenous populations in lowland South America, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4541.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Postberg, S. Kempf, J. Schmidt, N. Brilliantov, A. Beinsen, B. Abel, U. Buck, R. Srama, Sodium salts in E-ring ice grains from an ocean below the surface of Enceladus, Nature. 459 (2009) 1098–1101.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Armajani, Modern Islamist Movements, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Q. Yin, Microstructure, Property and Processing of Functional Ceramics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Q.-L. Zhang, Y.-R. Dai, J. Wang, R.-Y. Zhao, Research of Toxic Gas Diffusion Simulation Technology Based on Arc Engine, in: Y. Yang, M. Ma (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Green Communications and Networks 2012 (GCN 2012): Volume 3, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 35–41.

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]

B. Taub, Medical Examiner’s Report Shows Prince Died After Overdosing On Painkiller That’s 80 Times Stronger Than Morphine, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medical-examiner-s-report-shows-prince-died-after-overdosing-painkiller-80-times-stronger-morphine/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Commercial Maritime Industry: Updated Information on Federal Assessments, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.Z. David, A Practical Approach for Formation Damage Control in Both Miscible and Immiscible CO2 Gas Flooding in Asphaltenic Crude Systems Using Water Slugs and Injection Parameters, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2016.

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. Wagner, DeGrom Bounces Back in Style, but Cespedes Exits With Soreness, New York Times. (2017) B10.

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

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