How to format your references using the Journal of Crystal Growth citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Crystal Growth. 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]

R. Bürgmann, GEOPHYSICS. Weak subduction makes great quakes, Science 349 (2015) 1162–1163.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.C. Sun, M.J. Bevan, Defective CD8 T cell memory following acute infection without CD4 T cell help, Science 300 (2003) 339–342.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

F.J. Meyer zu Heringdorf, M.C. Reuter, R.M. Tromp, Growth dynamics of pentacene thin films, Nature 412 (2001) 517–520.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

F. Nicastro, S. Mathur, M. Elvis, J. Drake, T. Fang, A. Fruscione, Y. Krongold, H. Marshall, R. Williams, A. Zezas, The mass of the missing baryons in the X-ray forest of the warm-hot intergalactic medium, Nature 433 (2005) 495–498.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

V.J. Wiebe, Drug Therapy for Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

G. Privett, The Constellation Observing Atlas, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Marczyk, B. Deshpande, Measuring and Tracking Complexity in Science, in: A. Minai, D. Braha, Y. Bar-Yam (Eds.), Unifying Themes in Complex Systems: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Complex Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 27–33.

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 Journal of Crystal Growth.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, This Is What Ancient Greek Statues Used To Look Like In Color, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/physics/this-is-what-ancient-greek-statues-used-to-look-like-in-color/ (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, Commercial Aviation: Better Information about Airline-Imposed Fees and the Refundability of Government-Imposed Taxes and Fees Could Benefit Consumers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

V.A. Hoch, The Effects of Systematic Reinforcement on Academic Performance in Precision Teaching: An Investigation of Acquisition, Retention, and Endurance, Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, 2014.

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. Crow, It’s Still Audrey’s College, Even If Her Name Is Gone, New York Times (2002) 146.

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	Journal of Crystal Growth
Abbreviation	J. Cryst. Growth
ISSN (print)	0022-0248
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics