How to format your references using the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials citation style

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

D.K. Bilkey, Neuroscience. In the place space, Science. 305 (2004) 1245–1246.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Bollrath, F. Powrie, Immunology. Feed your Tregs more fiber, Science. 341 (2013) 463–464.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Mashchenko, H.M.P. Couchman, J. Wadsley, The removal of cusps from galaxy centres by stellar feedback in the early Universe, Nature. 442 (2006) 539–542.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A.P. Chikkatur, Y. Shin, A.E. Leanhardt, D. Kielpinski, E. Tsikata, T.L. Gustavson, D.E. Pritchard, W. Ketterle, A continuous source of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms, Science. 296 (2002) 2193–2195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Pohl, Building Science, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J. Guex, Discrete Biochronological Time Scales, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Xu, J. Xu, Perturbations on the Orbits, in: J. Xu (Ed.), Orbits: 2nd Order Singularity-Free Solutions, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013: pp. 39–68.

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 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, This Great Infographic Breaks Down The Top 5 Misconceptions About Evolution, 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 Finance: Using Airport Grant Funds for Security Projects Has Affected Some Development Projects, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Li, Semiconductor and metal oxide nanoparticles: Synthesis, physical properties and industrial application, Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 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.J.O. Murphy, Weary of War and Ready to Laugh, New York Times. (2014) C32.

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 Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Abbreviation	J. Magn. Magn. Mater.
ISSN (print)	0304-8853
Scope	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Condensed Matter Physics

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