How to format your references using the Journal of Sustainable Metallurgy citation style

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

Greer AL (2000) Too hot to melt. Nature 404:134–135

A journal article with 2 authors

Kulesa PM, Fraser SE (2002) Cell dynamics during somite boundary formation revealed by time-lapse analysis. Science 298:991–995

A journal article with 3 authors

Kent A, Massar S, Silman J (2014) Secure and robust transmission and verification of unknown quantum states in Minkowski space. Sci Rep 4:3901

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Reissmann S, Hochleitner E, Wang H, et al (2003) Taming of a poison: biosynthesis of the NiFe-hydrogenase cyanide ligands. Science 299:1067–1070

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ambaum MHP (2010) Thermal Physics of the Atmosphere. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Krapivin VF (2007) Globalization and Sustainable Development: Environmental Agendas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Dold MF (2016) Condorcet’s Jury Theorem as a Rational Justification of Soft Paternalistic Consumer Policies. In: Mathis K, Tor A (eds) Nudging - Possibilities, Limitations and Applications in European Law and Economics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 39–58

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 Sustainable Metallurgy.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Cranes Are Reluctant To Fly In The Fog. In: IFLScience. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Delivery of Key Benefits Hinges on States’ Achieving Compliance. 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

Gates DA (2017) Best Practices and Strategies for Financial Literacy in Faith-Based Organizations. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Vecsey G (2010) A Goal Apart in ’08, Face to Face Now. 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 Sustainable Metallurgy
Abbreviation	J. Sustain. Met.
ISSN (print)	2199-3823
ISSN (online)	2199-3831
Scope

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