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

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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. M. Greene, Nature 450, 1165 (2007).
A journal article with 2 authors
1. S. Mackwell and D. Rubie, Science 290, 1514 (2000).
A journal article with 3 authors
1. H. Hu, M. Martina, and P. Jonas, Science 327, 52 (2010).
A journal article with 4 or more authors
1. H. Busemann, A. F. Young, C. M. O. Alexander, P. Hoppe, S. Mukhopadhyay, and L. R. Nittler, Science 312, 727 (2006).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1. T. F. DeRosa, Advances in Polymer Chemistry and Methods Reported in Recent US Patents (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008).
An edited book
1. J. Kim and J. Garcia-Aguilar, editors , Surgery for Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract: A Step-by-Step Approach (Springer, New York, NY, 2015).
A chapter in an edited book
1. M. Mudelsee and G. Lohmann, in Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC), edited by M. Schulz and A. Paul (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015), pp. 19–23.

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: Materials in Electronics.

Blog post
1. T. Hale, IFLScience (2017).

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, Examination into the Increase in Cost of the Lunar-Roving Vehicles Being Manufactured by the Boeing Company (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1971).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1. D. L. Young, A Phenomenological Investigation of Science Center Exhibition Developers’ Expertise Development, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2012.

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. K. Crow, New York Times 144 (2001).

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 titleJournal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
AbbreviationJ. Mater. Sci.: Mater. Electron.
ISSN (print)0957-4522
ISSN (online)1573-482X
ScopeElectrical and Electronic Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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