How to format your references using the Journal of Materials Processing Tech. citation style

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

Powell, K., 2004. Glittering prizes. Nature 428, 676–677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reubi, O., Blundy, J., 2009. A dearth of intermediate melts at subduction zone volcanoes and the petrogenesis of arc andesites. Nature 461, 1269–1273.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pickrell, J.K., Gilad, Y., Pritchard, J.K., 2012. Comment on “Widespread RNA and DNA sequence differences in the human transcriptome.” Science 335, 1302; author reply 1302.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guo, H.F., Tong, J., Hannan, F., Luo, L., Zhong, Y., 2000. A neurofibromatosis-1-regulated pathway is required for learning in Drosophila. Nature 403, 895–898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferrari, M.L., Damo, U.M., Turan, A., Sánchez, D., 2017. Hybrid Systems Based on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Hess, F., Pauli, S., Pohst, M. (Eds.), 2006. Algorithmic Number Theory: 7th International Symposium, ANTS-VII, Berlin, Germany, July 23-28, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Jürgenson, A., Willemson, J., 2010. On Fast and Approximate Attack Tree Computations, in: Kwak, J., Deng, R.H., Won, Y., Wang, G. (Eds.), Information Security, Practice and Experience: 6th International Conference, ISPEC 2010, Seoul, Korea, May 12-13, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 56–66.

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 Processing Tech..

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017. Eleven Elephants Rescued From Muddy Bomb Crater Doom [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/eleven-elephants-rescued-from-muddy-bomb-crater-doom/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1991. Aviation Safety: Changes Needed in FAA’s Service Difficulty Reporting Program (No. RCED-91-24). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Peacock, C., 2012. Design science research toward designing/prototyping a repeatable model for testing location management (LM) algorithms for wireless networking (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Kelly, C., 2012. Drop Out, Dive In, Start Up. New York Times BU1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Powell, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Powell, 2004; Reubi and Blundy, 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Reubi and Blundy, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Guo et al., 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Materials Processing Tech.
Abbreviation	J. Mater. Process. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0924-0136
Scope	Computer Science Applications Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Ceramics and Composites Metals and Alloys Modelling and Simulation