How to format your references using the Journal of Rare Earths citation style

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

Desplan C. Time to pick the fly’s brain. Nature. 2007;450(7167):173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bjork A, Pitnick S. Intensity of sexual selection along the anisogamy-isogamy continuum. Nature. 2006;441(7094):742-745.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim SF, Huri DA, Snyder SH. Inducible nitric oxide synthase binds, S-nitrosylates, and activates cyclooxygenase-2. Science. 2005;310(5756):1966-1970.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chang TR, Lin H, Jeng HT, Bansil A. Thickness dependence of spin polarization and electronic structure of ultra-thin films of MoS2 and related transition-metal dichalcogenides. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6270.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bonneau D, Fatu A, Souchet D. Hydrodynamic Bearings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Lastovetsky A, Kechadi T, Dongarra J, eds. Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface: 15th European PVM/MPI Users’ Group Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, September 7-10, 2008. Proceedings. Vol 5205. Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Hardin CS, Taylor AD. The Denumerable Setting: One-Way Visibility. In: Taylor AD, ed. The Mathematics of Coordinated Inference: A Study of Generalized Hat Problems. Developments in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing; 2013:29-47.

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 Rare Earths.

Blog post

Andrew E. How Long Have HIV’s Ancestors Been Infecting Primates? IFLScience.

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. Telecommunications Acquisitions: Information on GSA’s Procurements. U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vas LT. Orbis Pictus: Intermedialität Zwischen Berliner Stadtmalerei Und Literarischer Stadterfahrung Dargestellt Anhand Der Werke von E.T.A. Hoffmann Und Wilhelm Raabe. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati; 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

Yablonsky L. Savoir Fair. New York Times. December 2, 2007:6150.

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 Rare Earths
ISSN (print)	1002-0721
Scope