How to format your references using the International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture. 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]

D.K. Morr, Physics. Lifting the fog of complexity, Science 343 (2014) 382–383.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N.E. Abrams, J.R. Primack, Essays on science and society. Cosmology and 21st-century culture, Science 293 (2001) 1769–1770.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.V.P. Bliss, G.L. Collingridge, S. Laroche, Neuroscience. ZAP and ZIP, a story to forget, Science 313 (2006) 1058–1059.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H.-X. Zhang, M. Liu, X. Bu, J. Zhang, Zeolitic BIF crystal directly producing noble-metal nanoparticles in its pores for catalysis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 3923.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Sauter, From GSM to LTE, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

E. Barbé, O. Costa, R. Kissack, eds., EU Policy Responses to a Shifting Multilateral System, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Governatori, A. Rotolo, E. Calardo, Possible World Semantics for Defeasible Deontic Logic, in: T. Ågotnes, J. Broersen, D. Elgesem (Eds.), Deontic Logic in Computer Science: 11th International Conference, DEON 2012, Bergen, Norway, July 16-18, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 46–60.

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 International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture.

Blog post

[1]

K. Hamilton, Women Are Better At Understanding Man’s Best Friend, IFLScience (2017).

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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Telecommunications Readiness Critical, Yet Overall Status Largely Unknown, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W. Best, Beneath the Silence, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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.M. Chapman, In Michigan, Homage to the Auto’s Heritage, New York Times (2010) AU4.

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	International Journal of Lightweight Materials and Manufacture
ISSN (print)	2588-8404
Scope