How to format your references using the Annual Review of Materials Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Materials Research. 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

Goodman S. 2003. University challenge Paris. Nature. 422(6932):644–45

A journal article with 2 authors

Sommer MA, Wurtz RH. 2006. Influence of the thalamus on spatial visual processing in frontal cortex. Nature. 444(7117):374–77

A journal article with 3 authors

Biswas AK, Atulasimha J, Bandyopadhyay S. 2014. An error-resilient non-volatile magneto-elastic universal logic gate with ultralow energy-delay product. Sci. Rep. 4:7553

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bloomfield FH, Oliver MH, Hawkins P, Campbell M, Phillips DJ, et al. 2003. A periconceptional nutritional origin for noninfectious preterm birth. Science. 300(5619):606

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cahill TH. 2012. Low Impact Development and Sustainable Stormwater Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Li Y, Silver EA, Li S, eds. 2014. Transforming Mathematics Instruction: Multiple Approaches and Practices. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XVI, 586 p. 114 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Arias-Santiago S, Buendía-Eisman A, Gutiérrez-Salmerón MT, Serrano-Ortega S. 2012. Male androgenetic alopecia. In Handbook of hair in health and disease, ed VR Preedy, pp. 98–116. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers

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 Annual Review of Materials Research.

Blog post

Hale T. 2016. Greek Artists May Have Helped Create China’s Terracotta Army. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1987. Space Operations: NASA’s Use of Information Technology. IMTEC-87-20, 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

Krug KA. 2009. Critical literacy in the face of a mandated curriculum: Can children read beyond the text? Doctoral dissertation thesis. George Washington 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

(mrs M S ) Isabella. 1960. Rosenbach and Books. New York Times, Dec. 18, p. The New York Times Book ReviewBR15

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Materials Research
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Mater. Res.
ISSN (print)	1531-7331
ISSN (online)	1545-4118
Scope	General Materials Science