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

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

Skipper M (2015) Evolution: Finches sequenced. Nature 518:308

A journal article with 2 authors

Matthias S, Müller F (2003) Asymmetric pores in a silicon membrane acting as massively parallel brownian ratchets. Nature 424:53–57

A journal article with 3 authors

Palmer MJ, Fukuyama F, Relman DA (2015) SCIENCE GOVERNANCE. A more systematic approach to biological risk. Science 350:1471–1473

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Coey JMD, Venkatesan M, Fitzgerald CB, et al (2002) Ferromagnetism of a graphite nodule from the Canyon Diablo meteorite. Nature 420:156–159

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant G, Broniatowski M (2016) Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lacki J, Ruegg H, Wanders G (2009) E.C.G. Stueckelberg, An Unconventional Figure of Twentieth Century Physics: Selected Scientific Papers with Commentaries. Birkhäuser, Basel

A chapter in an edited book

Hardin CS, Taylor AD (2013) The Denumerable Setting: One-Way Visibility. In: Taylor AD (ed) The Mathematics of Coordinated Inference: A Study of Generalized Hat Problems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 29–47

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 Science.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) Meet “Row-Bot”: An Autonomous Robot That Produces Electricity From Algae. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/meet-row-bot-autonomous-self-powered-algae-eating-robot/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1996) Public Education: Issues Involving Single-Gender Schools and Programs. 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

Pockross AF (2010) Campbell, Turner and dog training in Adam Freeman Pockross’s “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Genzlinger N, Hale M, Lyons M, Brantley B (2017) Vacation Selections For Trump. New York Times C1

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 Science
Abbreviation	J. Mater. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0022-2461
ISSN (online)	1573-4803
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science