How to format your references using the Computational Materials Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

D. Sarewitz, Better all the time, Nature 463 (2010) 607.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.M. Whitesides, G.W. Crabtree, Don’t forget long-term fundamental research in energy, Science 315 (2007) 796–798.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Kempner, C.S. Perlis, J.F. Merz, Ethics. Forbidden knowledge, Science 307 (2005) 854.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

T.P. Hughes, K.D. Anderson, S.R. Connolly, S.F. Heron, J.T. Kerry, J.M. Lough, A.H. Baird, J.K. Baum, M.L. Berumen, T.C. Bridge, D.C. Claar, C.M. Eakin, J.P. Gilmour, N.A.J. Graham, H. Harrison, J.-P.A. Hobbs, A.S. Hoey, M. Hoogenboom, R.J. Lowe, M.T. McCulloch, J.M. Pandolfi, M. Pratchett, V. Schoepf, G. Torda, S.K. Wilson, Spatial and temporal patterns of mass bleaching of corals in the Anthropocene, Science 359 (2018) 80–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-M. Franssen, P. Vila Real, Fire Design of Steel Structures, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

G. Rehm, H. Uszkoreit, eds., The Latvian Language in the Digital Age, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Dubois, Degrees of Truth, Ill-Known Sets and Contradiction, in: B. Bouchon-Meunier, L. Magdalena, M. Ojeda-Aciego, J.-L. Verdegay, R.R. Yager (Eds.), Foundations of Reasoning under Uncertainty, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 65–83.

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 Computational Materials Science.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Researchers Exploring Egyptian Cemetery Stumble Across Astonishing Find, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/catacombs-full-mummies-uncovered-massive-eegyptian-necropolis/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal Highway Funding by Program and Type of Roadway, With Related Safety Data, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.K. Trump, Self -brand overlap and dissociation, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2010.

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

[1]

L. Greenhouse, Breathing While Undocumented, New York Times (2010) A23.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Computational Materials Science
Abbreviation	Comput. Mater. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0927-0256
Scope	General Chemistry General Computer Science Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Computational Mathematics General Physics and Astronomy