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 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

[1]

E.C. Holmes, Virology. 1918 and all that, Science 303 (2004) 1787–1788.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Lucht, D. Rosskopf, Comment on “Genetically determined differences in learning from errors,” Science 321 (2008) 200; author reply 200.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.J.B. Kraft, R. Valencia, D.D. Ackerly, Functional traits and niche-based tree community assembly in an Amazonian forest, Science 322 (2008) 580–582.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N.M. Marshall, D.K. Garner, T.D. Wilson, Y.-G. Gao, H. Robinson, M.J. Nilges, Y. Lu, Rationally tuning the reduction potential of a single cupredoxin beyond the natural range, Nature 462 (2009) 113–116.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.-G. Elias, Macromolecules, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

D. Anagnostou, E. Matutes, eds., Bone Marrow Lymphoid Infiltrates: Diagnosis and Clinical Impact, Springer, London, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. Noll, The Foundations of Mechanics, in: G. Grioli, C. Truesdell (Eds.), Non-Linear Continuum Theories, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 159–200.

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]

E. Andrew, Frozen Steaks Cook Better Than Thawed Steaks, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/frozen-steaks-cook-better-thawed-steaks/ (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, Spectrum Management: Federal Relocation Costs and Auction Revenues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.M. Rodriguez, Navy Supply Corps officer’s perspective on effective leadership, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008.

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]

M. Kinsley, Trump Knows Enough to Stay Home, New York Times (2017) SR2.

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