How to format your references using the Intermetallics citation style

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

[1]

D. Gershon, Microarray technology: an array of opportunities, Nature 416 (2002) 885–891.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Kaspari, M.D. Weiser, Ecology. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss, Science 343 (2014) 974–975.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Q. Zhou, X. Su, K. Ning, Assessment of quality control approaches for metagenomic data analysis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6957.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Shima, O. Pilak, S. Vogt, M. Schick, M.S. Stagni, W. Meyer-Klaucke, E. Warkentin, R.K. Thauer, U. Ermler, The crystal structure of [Fe]-hydrogenase reveals the geometry of the active site, Science 321 (2008) 572–575.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Grinshpan, Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

D.A. Pelta, N. Krasnogor, D. Dumitrescu, C. Chira, R. Lung, eds., Nature Inspired Cooperative Strategies for Optimization (NICSO 2011), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Kreuzer, L. Robbiano, Zero-Dimensional Affine Algebras, in: L. Robbiano (Ed.), Computational Linear and Commutative Algebra, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 131–184.

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 Intermetallics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Secret Spaceplane Lands After 674 Days In Orbit, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/secret-air-force-spaceplane-lands-after-674-days-orbit/ (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, Space Acquisitions: DOD Is Making Progress to Rapidly Deliver Low Cost Space Capabilities, but Challenges Remain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Nichols, Genetic and genomic mechanisms of neonatal hyperoxic lung injury in the inbred mouse, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2012.

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]

K. Feeney, Charleston Chews And Sugar Babies: Fistfuls of Nostalgia, New York Times (2010) NJ11.

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	Intermetallics
Abbreviation	Intermetallics (Barking)
ISSN (print)	0966-9795
Scope	General Chemistry Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Materials Chemistry Metals and Alloys