How to format your references using the Materialia citation style

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

D. Dickson, Weaving a social web, Nature 414 (2001) 587.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L.M. Zahn, J. Travis, Cancer genomics. A medical renaissance? Introduction, Science 339 (2013) 1539.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N. Mason, M.J. Biercuk, C.M. Marcus, Local gate control of a carbon nanotube double quantum dot, Science 303 (2004) 655–658.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E.L. Sikes, C.R. Samson, T.P. Guilderson, W.R. Howard, Old radiocarbon ages in the southwest Pacific Ocean during the last glacial period and deglaciation, Nature 405 (2000) 555–559.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Weinstein, The Complete Guide to Fundraising Management, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Z.H. Siddik, ed., Checkpoint Controls and Targets in Cancer Therapy, 1st ed., Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Vlachou, C. Doulkeridis, K. Nørvåg, Y. Kotidis, Similarity Search in Metric Spaces, in: C. Doulkeridis, K. Nørvåg, Y. Kotidis (Eds.), Peer-to-Peer Query Processing over Multidimensional Data, Springer, New York, NY, 2012: pp. 31–42.

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 Materialia.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Scientists Finally Unravel Hawaii’s Bizarre Origin Story, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientists-finally-unravel-hawaiis-bizarre-origin-story/ (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, Urban Transportation: Issues Related to the South Corridor Study, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Pan, Long-Term Effects of Higher-Quality Early Childhood Education for At-Risk Children on Their Later Development and Resilience, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2010.

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]

M. Tackett, Virginia Election May Hinge on Immigrants. Will They Vote?, New York Times (2017) A17.

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	Materialia
ISSN (print)	2589-1529
Scope