How to format your references using the Manufacturing Letters citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Manufacturing Letters. 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]

Trivedi BP. Neuroscience: hardwired for taste. Nature 2012;486:S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Moellering RE, Cravatt BF. Functional lysine modification by an intrinsically reactive primary glycolytic metabolite. Science 2013;341:549–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bragg AE, Cavanagh MC, Schwartz BJ. Linear response breakdown in solvation dynamics induced by atomic electron-transfer reactions. Science 2008;321:1817–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yoshida-Ohuchi H, Hosoda M, Kanagami T, Uegaki M, Tashima H. Reduction factors for wooden houses due to external γ-radiation based on in situ measurements after the Fukushima nuclear accident. Sci Rep 2014;4:7541.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Vitetta GM, Taylor DP, Colavolpe G, Pancaldi F, Martin PA. Wireless Communications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Tost GO, Vasilieva O, editors. Analysis, Modelling, Optimization, and Numerical Techniques: ICAMI, San Andres Island, Colombia, November 2013. vol. 121. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Brkan M. The Role of the European Court of Justice in the Field of Common Foreign and Security Policy After the Treaty of Lisbon: New Challenges for the Future. In: Cardwell PJ, editor. EU External Relations Law and Policy in the Post-Lisbon Era, The Hague, The Netherlands: T. M. C. Asser Press; 2012, p. 97–115.

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 Manufacturing Letters.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. Can We Use A Simple Blood Test To Detect Cancer? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-we-use-a-simple-blood-test-to-detect-cancer/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. The Challenge of Data Sharing: Results of a GAO-Sponsored Symposium on Benefit and Loan Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bardhoshi G. The Relationship Between Assignment of Non-Counseling Duties and Burnout Among Professional School Counselors. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 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]

Schmidt MS. Officials Cancel Plans to Build New Headquarters for the F.B.I. New York Times 2017:A16.

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	Manufacturing Letters
Abbreviation	Manuf. Lett.
ISSN (print)	2213-8463
Scope	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Mechanics of Materials

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