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

Dessler, A.E., 2010. A determination of the cloud feedback from climate variations over the past decade. Science 330, 1523–1527.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schiermeier, Q., Smaglik, P., 2005. Homeward bound European Union. Nature 433, 440–441.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoon, S.-J., Yi, S.K., Lee, Y.-W., 2006. Explaining the color distributions of globular cluster systems in elliptical galaxies. Science 311, 1129–1132.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Caballero, A., Despagnet-Ayoub, E., Díaz-Requejo, M.M., Díaz-Rodríguez, A., González-Núñez, M.E., Mello, R., Muñoz, B.K., Ojo, W.-S., Asensio, G., Etienne, M., Pérez, P.J., 2011. Silver-catalyzed C-C bond formation between methane and ethyl diazoacetate in supercritical CO₂. Science 332, 835–838.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leleux, B., van Swaay, H., Megally, E., 2015. Private Equity 4.0. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Cokkinos, D.V., Pantos, C., Heusch, G., Taegtmeyer, H. (Eds.), 2006. Myocardial Ischemia: From mechanisms to therapeutic potentials, Basic Science for the Cardiologist. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Moschovakis, Y.N., 2016. Hyperarithmetical Sets, in: Omodeo, E.G., Policriti, A. (Eds.), Martin Davis on Computability, Computational Logic, and Mathematical Foundations, Outstanding Contributions to Logic. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 107–149.

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. Baby Beluga Whale Born In Georgia Aquarium On Mother’s Day [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baby-beluga-whale-born-georgia-aquarium-mothers-day/ (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. Consolidation of American Forces Radio and Television Service--Washington and Los Angeles Broadcasting Facilities (No. LCD-80-54). 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

Mishne, J., 2012. An investigation of the relationships between technology use and teachers’ self-efficacy, knowledge and experience (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Austen, I., Gladstone, R., 2014. Gunman’s Attack on Parliament Shakes Ottawa. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dessler, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Dessler, 2010; Schiermeier and Smaglik, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schiermeier and Smaglik, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Caballero et al., 2011)

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