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

Hodges A (2012) The man behind the machine. Nature 482:441

A journal article with 2 authors

Medzhitov R, Littman D (2008) HIV immunology needs a new direction. Nature 455:591

A journal article with 3 authors

Carpi F, Bauer S, De Rossi D (2010) Materials science. Stretching dielectric elastomer performance. Science 330:1759–1761

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bayer M, Hawrylak P, Hinzer K, et al (2001) Coupling and entangling of quantum states in quantum dot molecules. Science 291:451–453

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bamfield P (2006) Research and Development in the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG

An edited book

Kletti J (2007) Manufacturing Execution Systems — MES. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Lefèvre J, Baillet S (2009) Estimation of Velocity Fields and Propagation on Non-Euclidian Domains: Application to the Exploration of Cortical Spatiotemporal Dynamics. In: Ammari H (ed) Mathematical Modeling in Biomedical Imaging I: Electrical and Ultrasound Tomographies, Anomaly Detection, and Brain Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 203–226

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

Andrew E (2014) Stem Cell Therapy Allows Mice With MS-Like Condition To Walk Again. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/stem-cell-therapy-allows-mice-ms-condition-walk-again/. 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 (2007) NASA: Agency Has Taken Steps Toward Making Sound Investment Decisions for Ares I but Still Faces Challenging Knowledge Gaps. 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

McAvoy DL (2012) Coming of age with Shakespeare: The convergence of American youth culture and high culture since the 1980s. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Pilon M (2014) New York Mulls New Bid. New York Times B14

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

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