How to format your references using the Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation. 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

Halliday AN (2004) Mixing, volatile loss and compositional change during impact-driven accretion of the Earth. Nature 427:505–509

A journal article with 2 authors

Green MA, Fry SC (2005) Vitamin C degradation in plant cells via enzymatic hydrolysis of 4-O-oxalyl-L-threonate. Nature 433:83–87

A journal article with 3 authors

Beeli G, Esslen M, Jäncke L (2005) Synaesthesia: when coloured sounds taste sweet. Nature 434:38

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kramer M, Lyne AG, O’Brien JT, et al (2006) A periodically active pulsar giving insight into magnetospheric physics. Science 312:549–551

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Soustelle M (2013) Handbook of Heterogenous Kinetics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Lichtfouse E, Schwarzbauer J, Robert D (2013) Green Materials for Energy, Products and Depollution. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Recio-García JA, Díaz-Agudo B, González-Calero PA (2014) The COLIBRI Platform: Tools, Features and Working Examples. In: Montani S, Jain LC (eds) Successful Case-based Reasoning Applications-2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 55–85

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 Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Why Does Matter Exceed Antimatter? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/why-does-matter-exceed-antimatter/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (2009) Freight Rail Security: Actions Have Been Taken to Enhance Security, but the Federal Strategy Can Be Strengthened and Security Efforts Better Monitored. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Malkus N (2012) Beneath the district averages: Intradistrict differences in teacher compensation expenditures. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park

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

Jorden J (2017) ‘Don Giovanni’ in Its Indelible Essence. New York Times C5

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	Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation
Abbreviation	Integr. Mater. Manuf. Innov.
ISSN (print)	2193-9764
ISSN (online)	2193-9772
Scope

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