How to format your references using the Materials Chemistry and Physics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Materials Chemistry and Physics. 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

[1]

T.H. Murray, Genetics. Stirring the simmering “designer baby” pot, Science 343 (2014) 1208–1210.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.M. Sadler, R.H. Tai, Transitions. The two high-school pillars supporting college science, Science 317 (2007) 457–458.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D.C. Bergquist, F.M. Williams, C.R. Fisher, Longevity record for deep-sea invertebrate, Nature 403 (2000) 499–500.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y.-X. Liu, H.-C. Sun, Z.H. Peng, A. Miranowicz, J.S. Tsai, F. Nori, Controllable microwave three-wave mixing via a single three-level superconducting quantum circuit, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7289.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Lehto, X. Hou, Chemistry and Analysis of Radionuclides, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

J.-D. Deuschel, A. Greven, eds., Interacting Stochastic Systems, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N.R. Neelameggham, B.R. Davis, Thermal Wastes from Energy Conversions and Global Anthropogenic Warming, in: A. Jha, C. Wang, N.R. Neelameggham, D.P. Guillen, L. Li, C.K. Belt, R. Kirchain, J.S. Spangenberger, F. Johnson, A.J. Gomes, A. Pandey, P. Hosemann (Eds.), Energy Technology 2015: Carbon Dioxide Management and Other Technologies, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 29–35.

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 Materials Chemistry and Physics.

Blog post

[1]

B. Taub, Can You Really Get High From Snorting Chocolate?, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/can-you-really-get-high-snorting-chocolate/ (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, Social Security Administration: Additional Actions Needed in Ongoing Efforts to Improve 800-Number Service, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.M. Reich, Adapted physical education teachers’ attitudes towards their students with hidden and visible disabilities, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

R. Rojas, Woman Is Fatally Shot Outside a Club, New York Times (2015) A22.

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	Materials Chemistry and Physics
Abbreviation	Mater. Chem. Phys.
ISSN (print)	0254-0584
Scope	General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics