How to format your references using the Chemistry of Materials citation style

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

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Wickware, P. Progress from a Fragile Start. Nature 2000, 403 (6768), 466.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Tibbetts, E. A.; Dale, J. A Socially Enforced Signal of Quality in a Paper Wasp. Nature 2004, 432 (7014), 218–222.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Singh, P. K.; Hopwood, J.; Sonkusale, S. Metamaterials for Remote Generation of Spatially Controllable Two Dimensional Array of Microplasma. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5964.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Gill, S. R.; Pop, M.; Deboy, R. T.; Eckburg, P. B.; Turnbaugh, P. J.; Samuel, B. S.; Gordon, J. I.; Relman, D. A.; Fraser-Liggett, C. M.; Nelson, K. E. Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut Microbiome. Science 2006, 312 (5778), 1355–1359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Vignes, A. Extractive Metallurgy 2; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.

An edited book

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Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology: First International Conference, RSKT 2006, Chongquing, China, July 24-26, 2006. Proceedings; Wang, G.-Y., Peters, J. F., Skowron, A., Yao, Y., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006; Vol. 4062.

A chapter in an edited book

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Moffett, D. F.; Onken, H. The Cellular Basis of Extreme Alkali Secretion in Insects: A Tale of Two Tissues. In Epithelial Transport Physiology; Gerencser, G. A., Ed.; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2010; pp 91–112.

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 Chemistry of Materials.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. The Black Death Reshaped the Human Genome. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/black-death-reshaped-human-genome/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Computer Security: Hackers Penetrate DOD Computer Systems; T-IMTEC-92-5; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Hariharan, S. B. The Structure of the Blue Whirl: A Soot-Free Reacting Vortex Phenomenon. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, 2017.

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

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Haberman, M.; Thrush, G.; Schmidt, M. S.; Baker, P. How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in Firing. New York Times. May 10, 2017, p A1.

In-text citations

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

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	Chemistry of Materials
Abbreviation	Chem. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0897-4756
ISSN (online)	1520-5002
Scope	General Chemical Engineering General Chemistry Materials Chemistry

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