How to format your references using the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
Dasheiff R 2015 A career’s twisting road Science 347 918
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Shirane M and Nakayama K I 2006 Protrudin induces neurite formation by directional membrane trafficking Science 314 818–21
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Kaina N, Fink M and Lerosey G 2013 Composite media mixing Bragg and local resonances for highly attenuating and broad bandgaps Sci. Rep. 3 3240
A journal article with 99 or more authors
[1]
Pool M R, Stumm J, Fulga T A, Sinning I and Dobberstein B 2002 Distinct modes of signal recognition particle interaction with the ribosome Science 297 1345–8

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Hermans J and Lentz B 2013 Equilibria and Kinetics of Biological Macromolecules (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
An edited book
[1]
Schmidt R A 2009 Automated Deduction – CADE-22: 22nd International Conference on Automated Deduction, Montreal, Canada, August 2-7, 2009. Proceedings vol 5663 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Hart S G E 2006 Safety Pharmacology of Drugs for the Urinary Tract Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Safety and Pharmacokinetic Assays ed H G Vogel, F J Hock, J Maas and D Mayer (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer) pp 95–140

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 IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering.

Blog post
[1]
Andrew D 2015 Awesome Science Parody Of Taylor Swift Song IFLScience

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 2002 Space Surveillance Network: Appropriate Controls Needed Over Data Access (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Larson E B 2014 Bahamian Quaternary geology and the global carbon budget Doctoral dissertation (Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University)

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]
Kishkovsky S 2013 Putin in Ukraine to Celebrate a Christian Anniversary New York Times A4

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 titleIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
AbbreviationIOP Conf. Ser. Mater. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)1757-8981
ISSN (online)1757-899X
Scope

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