How to format your references using the Journal of Materials Research and Technology citation style

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

[1]

Stuart JS. A near-Earth asteroid population estimate from the LINEAR survey. Science 2001;294:1691–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dye C, Gay N. Epidemiology. Modeling the SARS epidemic. Science 2003;300:1884–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Nowak MA, Tarnita CE, Wilson EO. The evolution of eusociality. Nature 2010;466:1057–62.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liljeros F, Edling CR, Amaral LA, Stanley HE, Aberg Y. The web of human sexual contacts. Nature 2001;411:907–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hopkins D. Reading Paradise Lost. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Haenni R, Koenig RE, Wikström D, editors. E-Voting and Identity: 5th International Conference, VoteID 2015, Bern, Switzerland, September 2-4, 2015, Proceedings. vol. 9269. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bongmba EK, Akinade AE. Dislodgings and Reformation: Expanding Christianity in Africa and in the Diaspora. In: Padilla E, Phan PC, editors. Christianities in Migration: The Global Perspective, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016, p. 55–70.

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 Research and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. How Particle Accelerator Maths Helped Me Fix My Wi-Fi. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-particle-accelerator-maths-helped-me-fix-my-wi-fi/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Oil and Gas Transportation: Department of Transportation Is Taking Actions to Address Rail Safety, but Additional Actions Are Needed to Improve Pipeline Safety. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Holman R. Music history pedagogy: Three approaches to teaching a one-semester music history survey course in accordance with the LEAP Initiative. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Greenhouse L. Justices Ponder Relationship of Federal and State Courts. New York Times 2006:A20.

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 Materials Research and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Mater. Res. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2238-7854
Scope