How to format your references using the Materials Science for Energy Technologies citation style

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

B. Martin, From industry to academia, Nature. 429 (2004) 324–325.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Trautmann, E. Vivier, Immunology. Agrin--a bridge between the nervous and immune systems, Science. 292 (2001) 1667–1668.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.E. McGuire, P.T. Le, R.L. Davis, The role of Drosophila mushroom body signaling in olfactory memory, Science. 293 (2001) 1330–1333.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.C. Russell, D.R. Towns, S.H. Anderson, M.N. Clout, Intercepting the first rat ashore, Nature. 437 (2005) 1107.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee, Centrifugal Pumps (Newtonian Liquids), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2002.

An edited book

[1]

A. Glieder, C.P. Kubicek, D. Mattanovich, B. Wiltschi, M. Sauer, eds., Synthetic Biology, 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Davies, A. Saifuddin, Ultrasonography, in: A.M. Davies, M. Sundaram, S.L.J. James (Eds.), Imaging of Bone Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions: Techniques and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 85–93.

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 Science for Energy Technologies.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, 4 Things You Can Literally Learn While You Sleep, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/4-things-you-can-literally-learn-while-you-sleep/ (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, Business Systems Modernization: IRS Needs to Complete Recent Efforts to Develop Policies and Procedures to Guide Requirements Development and Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.C. Trichon, Self-Help Conferences for People Who Stutter: An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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. Paulson, Denver Weather? ‘Frozen,’ New York Times. (2017) AR1.

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 Science for Energy Technologies
ISSN (print)	2589-2991
Scope

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