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

Fuyuno I. 2006. Stuck in the middle. Nature. 442(7100):237

A journal article with 2 authors

Gudmundsson A, Mohajeri N. 2013. Entropy and order in urban street networks. Sci. Rep. 3:3324

A journal article with 3 authors

Reber M, Burrola P, Lemke G. 2004. A relative signalling model for the formation of a topographic neural map. Nature. 431(7010):847–53

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Sparrow C, Martín-López E, Maraviglia N, Neville A, Harrold C, et al. 2018. Simulating the vibrational quantum dynamics of molecules using photonics. Nature. 557(7707):660–67

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fjeld RA, Eisenberg NA, Compton KL. 2007. Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis for Human Health. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Specht L, Yahalom J, eds. 2011. Radiotherapy for Hodgkin Lymphoma. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. VIII, 214p. 107 illus., 88 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Young MJ, Sarin R. 2014. Fostering Meaning, Social Connection, and Well-Being Through Hindu Beliefs and Practices. In Religion and Spirituality Across Cultures, ed C Kim-Prieto, pp. 87–100. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands

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

Carpineti A. 2017. Galaxies In the Early Universe Appear To Have Less Dark Matter Than Expected. IFLScience

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. 2015. Public-Safety Broadband Network: FirstNet Should Strengthen Internal Controls and Evaluate Lessons Learned. GAO-15-407, 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

Urshel CL. 2006. The Technical Adequacy of Standards-Derived Curriculum-Based Measures for Reading Comprehension and Math Computation in Middle School. Doctoral dissertation thesis. University of Cincinnati

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

Rothenberg B. 2017. Nadal Seeks to Recapture Wimbledon Success. New York Times, June 29, p. B13

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