How to format your references using the Bulletin of Materials Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of Materials Science. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Dehgan, Alex. 2012. Creating the new development ecosystem. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336: 1397–1398.

A journal article with 2 authors

Saunders, Mark A., and Adam S. Lea. 2008. Large contribution of sea surface warming to recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity. Nature 451: 557–560.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watanabe, Y., J. E. Martini, and H. Ohmoto. 2000. Geochemical evidence for terrestrial ecosystems 2.6 billion years ago. Nature 408: 574–578.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Seki, Akiko, Judith A. Coppinger, Chang-Young Jang, John R. Yates, and Guowei Fang. 2008. Bora and the kinase Aurora a cooperatively activate the kinase Plk1 and control mitotic entry. Science (New York, N.Y.) 320: 1655–1658.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilson, Gregory P. 2011. Managing to the New Regulatory Reality. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hirose, Akira, Seiichi Ozawa, Kenji Doya, Kazushi Ikeda, Minho Lee, and Derong Liu, ed. 2016. Neural Information Processing: 23rd International Conference, ICONIP 2016, Kyoto, Japan, October 16–21, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Vol. 9948. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Reith, Wolfgang. 2016. ComputedTomography. In Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, ed. Thomas J. Vogl, Wolfgang Reith, and Ernst J. Rummeny, 25–30. 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 Bulletin of Materials Science.

Blog post

Davis, Josh. 2016. Fifty Years Ago, The Sugar Industry Was Funding Research Downplaying Its Effect On Health. IFLScience. IFLScience. September 13.

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. 2001. Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton Truck Driver Training and Supervision. GAO-01-436. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Coffman, Mitchell Ward. 2015. A National Study of the Relationship between Home Access to a Computer and Academic Performance Scores of Grade 12 U.S. Science Students: An Analysis of the 2009 NAEP Data. Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Chira, Susan. 2013. When a House Falls in the Forest. New York Times, September 26.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Dehgan 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Saunders and Lea 2008; Dehgan 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Saunders and Lea 2008)
Three or more authors: (Seki et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Materials Science
ISSN (print)	0250-4707
ISSN (online)	0973-7669
Scope