How to format your references using the Johnson Matthey Technology Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Johnson Matthey Technology Review (JMTR). 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. R. Murenzi, Nature, 2011, 474, (7353), 543

A journal article with 2 authors

1. P. R. Ehrlich and D. Kennedy, Science, 2005, 309, (5734), 562

A journal article with 3 authors

1. H. N. Cartwright, J. A. Humphries and L. G. Smith, Science, 2009, 323, (5914), 649

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1. J. A. Tang, S. Dugar, G. Zhong, N. S. Dalal, J. P. Zheng, Y. Yang and R. Fu, Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, 2596

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. B. Robyns, B. François, G. Delille and C. Saudemont, ‘Energy Storage in Electric Power Grids’, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015

An edited book

1. ‘RNA Metabolism in Trypanosomes’, ed. A. Bindereif,Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology Vol. 28, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012

A chapter in an edited book

1. Y. Wang and T.-P. Jung, ‘Improving Brain–Computer Interfaces Using Independent Component Analysis’, in ‘Towards Practical Brain-Computer Interfaces: Bridging the Gap from Research to Real-World Applications’, Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, eds. B. Z. Allison, S. Dunne, R. Leeb, J. Del R. Millán, and A. Nijholt, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013

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 Johnson Matthey Technology Review.

Blog post

1. S. Luntz, ‘Australia’s “No Jab, No Pay” Vaccination Policy Seems To Be Working’, IFLScience IFLScience, 2016 : https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/australias-no-jab-no-pay-vaccination-policy-seems-to-be-working/ (Accessed on 30 October 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, ‘Highway Finance: States’ Expanding Use of Tolling Illustrates Diverse Challenges and Strategies’, No. GAO-06-554, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 28 June 2006

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. C. I. Iwuagwu, ‘Preventing the Spread of HIV Among Homeless Youth in California’, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2017

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. K. Glassman, ‘The G.O.P. Needs You: Vote Clinton’, New York Times, 6 September 2016, p. A21

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Johnson Matthey Technology Review
ISSN (print)	2056-5135
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