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]

Brumfiel G. French minister breaks diplomatic ice with visit to US. Nature 2003;422:551.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McKee CF, Tan JC. Massive star formation in 100,000 years from turbulent and pressurized molecular clouds. Nature 2002;416:59–61.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Phillips BL, Casey WH, Karlsson M. Bonding and reactivity at oxide mineral surfaces from model aqueous complexes. Nature 2000;404:379–82.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Meibom KL, Blokesch M, Dolganov NA, Wu C-Y, Schoolnik GK. Chitin induces natural competence in Vibrio cholerae. Science 2005;310:1824–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Faticoni TG. The Mathematics of Infinity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Litrico X. Modeling and Control of Hydrosystems. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Armgardt M. Presumptions and Conjectures in Leibniz’s Legal Theory. In: Armgardt M, Canivez P, Chassagnard-Pinet S, editors. Past and Present Interactions in Legal Reasoning and Logic, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 51–69.

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. Time To Take A Sick Day: Working When Ill Is Bad For You – And Your Company. IFLScience 2015.

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. Aviation Acquisition: A Comprehensive Strategy Is Needed for Cultural Change at FAA. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Burns D. Measuring the Outcome of At-Risk Students on Biology Standardized Tests When Using Different Instructional Strategies. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, 2017.

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]

Goldstein M, Abrams R, Protess B. Private Equity Hits Close to Home. New York Times 2016:A1.

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