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

Ledford H. 2006. Liquid fuel synthesis: making it up as you go along. Nature. 444(7120):677–78

A journal article with 2 authors

Sabado RL, Bhardwaj N. 2015. Cancer immunotherapy: dendritic-cell vaccines on the move. Nature. 519(7543):300–301

A journal article with 3 authors

Wörsdörfer B, Woycechowsky KJ, Hilvert D. 2011. Directed evolution of a protein container. Science. 331(6017):589–92

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yang H, Luo G, Karnchanaphanurach P, Louie T-M, Rech I, et al. 2003. Protein conformational dynamics probed by single-molecule electron transfer. Science. 302(5643):262–66

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flynn JR. 2012. How to Improve Your Mind. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell

An edited book

Li G, Baker SP, eds. 2012. Injury Research: Theories, Methods, and Approaches. Boston, MA: Springer US. XXII, 676 p. 109 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Rezaei G, Kirley M, Pfau J. 2009. Evolving Cooperation in the N-player Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Social Network Model. In Artificial Life: Borrowing from Biology: 4th Australian Conference, ACAL 2009, Melbourne, Australia, December 1-4, 2009. Proceedings, ed K Korb, M Randall, T Hendtlass, pp. 43–52. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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. Camera Zoom Captures Insane Shot Of The Moon. 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. 2003. Information Technology: FBI Needs an Enterprise Architecture to Guide Its Modernization Activities. GAO-03-959, 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

Morton WG. 2015. Isolating mycorrhizal fungi from Spiranthes vernalis for subsequent in vitro seed germination. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Southern Illinois 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

Williams J. 2017. A Change Means a Challenge. New York Times, Sep. 9, p. C1

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