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

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

W. B. Bonvillian: Technology. Advanced manufacturing policies and paradigms for innovation. Science 342(6163), 1173 (2013).

A journal article with 2 authors

J. A. Mathews and H. Tan: Economics: Manufacture renewables to build energy security. Nature 513(7517), 166 (2014).

A journal article with 3 authors

J. P. Haskell, M. E. Ritchie, and H. Olff: Fractal geometry predicts varying body size scaling relationships for mammal and bird home ranges. Nature 418(6897), 527 (2002).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

J. F. Hughes, H. Skaletsky, T. Pyntikova, P. J. Minx, T. Graves, S. Rozen, R. K. Wilson, and D. C. Page: Conservation of Y-linked genes during human evolution revealed by comparative sequencing in chimpanzee. Nature 437(7055), 100 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

M. Allen: Foundations of Forensic Document Analysis (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015).

An edited book

R. E. Pino, A. Kott, and M. Shevenell, editors : Cybersecurity Systems for Human Cognition Augmentation (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

F. Cheli and G. Diana: in Advanced Dynamics of Mechanical Systems, edited by G. Diana (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015), pp. 311–412.

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.

Blog post

A. Carpineti: IFLScience (2016).

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: Aviation Security: Progress Being Made, but Long-Term Attention Is Needed (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Y. Yoon: Nano-Tribology of Discrete Track Recording Media, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 2010.

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

J. Grippe: New York Times A18 (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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
Abbreviation	J. Mater. Res.
ISSN (print)	0884-2914
ISSN (online)	2044-5326
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics