How to format your references using the Journal of Materials Chemistry citation style

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

C. J. Arntzen, Science, 2008, 321, 1052–1053.

A journal article with 2 authors

B. Greenwood and T. Mutabingwa, Nature, 2002, 415, 670–672.

A journal article with 3 authors

R. Arlettaz, G. Jones and P. A. Racey, Nature, 2001, 414, 742–745.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

F. S. Alkuraya, I. Saadi, J. J. Lund, A. Turbe-Doan, C. C. Morton and R. L. Maas, Science, 2006, 313, 1751.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

R. J. Wootton and C. Smith, Reproductive Biology of Teleost Fishes, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

T. D. Oswalt, L. M. French and P. Kalas, Eds., Planets, Stars and Stellar Systems: Volume 3: Solar and Stellar Planetary Systems, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

P. Dorey and M. Garnett, in The British Coalition Government, 2010-2015: A Marriage of Inconvenience, ed. M. Garnett, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016, pp. 137–178.

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 Materials Chemistry.

Blog post

J. Fang, Two New Horned Dinos Discovered in Museum Collections, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-new-horned-dinos-discovered-museum-collections/, (accessed 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

Government Accountability Office, Federal Research Grants: Opportunities Remain for Agencies to Streamline Administrative Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

A. Bhatnagar, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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

B. Vlasic and M. M. Chapman, New York Times, 2016, B1.

In-text citations

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

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 Materials Chemistry
ISSN (print)	0959-9428
ISSN (online)	1364-5501
Scope

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