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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Sette, A., 2000. Tools of the trade in vaccine design. Science 290, 2074b–5b.
A journal article with 2 authors
Weir, J.T., Schluter, D., 2007. The latitudinal gradient in recent speciation and extinction rates of birds and mammals. Science 315, 1574–1576.
A journal article with 3 authors
Tamsir, A., Tabor, J.J., Voigt, C.A., 2011. Robust multicellular computing using genetically encoded NOR gates and chemical “wires.” Nature 469, 212–215.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Vocadlo, D.J., Davies, G.J., Laine, R., Withers, S.G., 2001. Catalysis by hen egg-white lysozyme proceeds via a covalent intermediate. Nature 412, 835–838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Haupt, R.L., 2015. Timed Arrays. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.
An edited book
Papantonopoulos, E. (Ed.), 2005. The Physics of the Early Universe, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
A chapter in an edited book
Erdmann, M., Nguyen, D.D., Takeyoshi, T., Hattori, G., Matsumoto, K., Ono, C., 2012. Hierarchical Training of Multiple SVMs for Personalized Web Filtering, in: Anthony, P., Ishizuka, M., Lukose, D. (Eds.), PRICAI 2012: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 12th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Kuching, Malaysia, September 3-7, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 27–39.

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
Andrew, E., 2015. Enemy Within: The Fungus That Lives In Your Mouth And Kills As Many As MRSA [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/enemy-within-fungus-lives-your-mouth-and-kills-many-mrsa/ (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, 1980. Need for NASA To Provide Congress More Complete Cost Information on Its Projects (No. PSAD-81-7). 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
Ekici, T., 2006. An Investigation of Credit Card Debt: The Effect of Price and Income Expectations and the Impact on Consumption (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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
Mueller, B., Schweber, N., 2015. Driver Arrested After Bus Fatally Strikes Pedestrian. New York Times A24.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sette, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Sette, 2000; Weir and Schluter, 2007).

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

  • Two authors: (Weir and Schluter, 2007)
  • Three or more authors: (Vocadlo et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Materials Processing Tech.
AbbreviationJ. Mater. Process. Technol.
ISSN (print)0924-0136
ScopeComputer Science Applications
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Ceramics and Composites
Metals and Alloys
Modelling and Simulation

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