How to format your references using the Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing citation style

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

N. Loder, Cambridge seeks Pound Sterling 1.6 million to buy Newton’s papers, Nature 406 (2000) 924.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Casavecchia, M.H. Alexander, Chemistry. Uncloaking the quantum nature of inelastic molecular collisions, Science 341 (2013) 1076–1077.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.A. McKee, F.J. Walker, M.F. Chisholm, Physical structure and inversion charge at a semiconductor interface with a crystalline oxide, Science 293 (2001) 468–471.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.E. Dolmetsch, U. Pajvani, K. Fife, J.M. Spotts, M.E. Greenberg, Signaling to the nucleus by an L-type calcium channel-calmodulin complex through the MAP kinase pathway, Science 294 (2001) 333–339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.J. Dowrick, Earthquake Risk Reduction, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

D. Herath, C. Kroos, Stelarc, eds., Robots and Art: Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Puri, S.J. Nicholls, Monitoring the Progression and Regression of Coronary Atherosclerosis with Intravascular Ultrasound, in: S.J. Nicholls, T. Crowe (Eds.), Imaging Coronary Atherosclerosis, Springer, New York, NY, 2014: pp. 67–79.

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 in Semiconductor Processing.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Students Develop Cheap Water Treatment System Using Chip Packets, IFLScience (2014).

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, Review of the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Procurements of Automatic Data Processing Equipment, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1980.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.S. Lee, Towards an improved baton technique: The application and modification of conducting gestures drawn from the methods of Rudolf, Green and Saitö for enhanced performance of orchestral interpretations, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2008.

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]

S.R. Kelly, Bonjour, America!, New York Times (2013) A23.

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 in Semiconductor Processing
Abbreviation	Mater. Sci. Semicond. Process.
ISSN (print)	1369-8001
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics