How to format your references using the Materials Discovery citation style

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

J. Walker, Frederick Sanger (1918-2013), Nature 505 (2014) 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Clauset, D.H. Erwin, The evolution and distribution of species body size, Science 321 (2008) 399–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Causier, M. Kieffer, B. Davies, Plant biology. MADS-box genes reach maturity, Science 296 (2002) 275–276.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

I.R. Searle, A.E. Men, T.S. Laniya, D.M. Buzas, I. Iturbe-Ormaetxe, B.J. Carroll, P.M. Gresshoff, Long-distance signaling in nodulation directed by a CLAVATA1-like receptor kinase, Science 299 (2003) 109–112.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-P. Caltagirone, Discrete Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

M. Book, Tamed Agility: Pragmatic Contracting and Collaboration in Agile Software Projects, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Wang, R. Jobredeaux, H. Herencia, P.-L. Garoche, A. Dieumegard, É. Feron, M. Pantel, From Design to Implementation: An Automated, Credible Autocoding Chain for Control Systems, in: E. Feron (Ed.), Advances in Control System Technology for Aerospace Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2016: pp. 137–180.

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 Discovery.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Would You Take A Bath In Red Wine For Your Health?, IFLScience (2015).

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, Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Labor Has Progressed But Selected Systems Remain at Risk, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.-U. Werbeck, From rubble to revolutions and raves: Literary interrogations of German media ecologies, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 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]

J. Eligon, Undercover TV Reports on School Security Raise Ethical Questions, New York Times (2014) B1.

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 Discovery
ISSN (print)	2352-9245
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