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

Polster, Burkard. 2002. Mathematics: What is the best way to lace your shoes? Nature 420: 476.

A journal article with 2 authors

Georgiou, George, and Lluis Masip. 2003. Biochemistry. An overoxidation journey with a return ticket. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 592–594.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whiten, Andrew, Victoria Horner, and Frans B. M. de Waal. 2005. Conformity to cultural norms of tool use in chimpanzees. Nature 437: 737–740.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lavé, J., D. Yule, S. Sapkota, K. Basant, C. Madden, M. Attal, and R. Pandey. 2005. Evidence for a great medieval earthquake (~1100 A.D.) in the central Himalayas, Nepal. Science (New York, N.Y.) 307: 1302–1305.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hetherington, Stephen. 2011. How to Know. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Klewes, Joachim, and Robert Wreschniok, ed. 2009. Reputation Capital: Building and Maintaining Trust in the 21st Century. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chervenak, Ann, and Shishir Bharathi. 2008. Peer-to-Peer Approaches to Grid Resource Discovery. In Making Grids Work: Proceedings of the CoreGRID Workshop on Programming Models Grid and P2P System Architecture Grid Systems, Tools and Environments 12-13 June 2007, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, ed. Paraskevi Fragopoulou and Vladimir Getov, 59–76. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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

Luntz, Stephen. 2014. Working the Weather By Laser. IFLScience. IFLScience. April 22.

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. 2005. Social Security Administration: Additional Actions Needed in Ongoing Efforts to Improve 800-Number Service. GAO-05-735. 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

Lin, Tiffany S. 2014. The invisible “religious” minority: Working with the nonreligious bereaved. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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, John. 2016. Gifted Frenemies, Egging Each Other on to Greatness. New York Times, August 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Polster 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Polster 2002; Georgiou and Masip 2003).

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

Two authors: (Georgiou and Masip 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lavé et al. 2005)

About the journal

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