How to format your references using the Journal of Materiomics citation style

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

Rawlins EL. Stem cells: Emergency back-up for lung repair. Nature 2015;517:556–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Youk H, Lim WA. Secreting and sensing the same molecule allows cells to achieve versatile social behaviors. Science 2014;343:1242782.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Beldade P, Koops K, Brakefield PM. Developmental constraints versus flexibility in morphological evolution. Nature 2002;416:844–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Hutko AR, Lay T, Garnero EJ, Revenaugh J. Seismic detection of folded, subducted lithosphere at the core-mantle boundary. Nature 2006;441:333–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Staudt G. Experimentalphysik. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Baldoni M, Chopra AK, Son TC, Hirayama K, Torroni P, editors. PRIMA 2016: Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems: 19th International Conference, Phuket, Thailand, August 22-26, 2016, Proceedings. vol. 9862. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Bloothooft G, Schraagen M. Learning Name Variants from Inexact High-Confidence Matches. In: Bloothooft G, Christen P, Mandemakers K, Schraagen M, editors. Population Reconstruction, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015, p. 61–83.

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 Materiomics.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. The 25 Highest-Paying Jobs In America In 2017. 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. Transportation Infrastructure: Estimated State Funding Under the Transportation Empowerment Act. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Sarkar D. Nanopass compiler infrastructure. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2008.

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]

Detrick B. Glamour and Virtue at Fashion Week Parties. New York Times 2017:D12.

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 Materiomics
ISSN (print)	2352-8478
Scope