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]

P. Molnar, Jack oliver (1923-2011), Nature 470 (2011) 176.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.H. Malone, P. Michalak, Physiological sex predicts hybrid sterility regardless of genotype, Science 319 (2008) 59.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Dunn, H. Kamath, J.-M. Tarascon, Electrical energy storage for the grid: a battery of choices, Science 334 (2011) 928–935.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Deuss, S.A.T. Redfern, K. Chambers, J.H. Woodhouse, The nature of the 660-kilometer discontinuity in Earth’s mantle from global seismic observations of PP precursors, Science 311 (2006) 198–201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.C. McMaster, HPLC, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007.

An edited book

[1]

L. Bougé, V.K. Prasanna, eds., High Performance Computing - HiPC 2004: 11th International Conference, Bangalore, India, December 19-22, 2004. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Castellano, A.M. Fanelli, M.A. Torsello, Web Usage Mining: Discovering Usage Patterns for Web Applications, in: J.D. Velásquez, V. Palade, L.C. Jain (Eds.), Advanced Techniques in Web Intelligence-2: Web User Browsing Behaviour and Preference Analysis, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 75–104.

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]

T. Hale, Watch Monster Magnetic Putty Devour Metal Objects, IFLScience (2015).

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, Airport Noise: FAA’s Enforcement of Noise Rules at National Airport, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.P. Rhoads, Knowledge management practices in U.S. federal agencies: The catalyst for E-Government transformation, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2006.

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]

J.C. McKINLEY Jr, Prosecutors Drop Charges Against a Bronx Teenager, New York Times (2017) A20.

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