How to format your references using the Materials Technology citation style

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

Macilwain C. Wanted: Fraud-buster with political antennae. Nature. 2014;507:275.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Tam WY, Ma CHE. Bipolar/rod-shaped microglia are proliferating microglia with distinct M1/M2 phenotypes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7279.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Grima JN, Attard D, Gatt R. Materials science. Unusual thermoelastic properties of methanol monohydrate. Science. 2011;331:687–688.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Ling L, Jiafeng J, Jiangang L, et al. Effects of cold plasma treatment on seed germination and seedling growth of soybean. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5859.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ccps. Guidelines for Combustible Dust Hazard Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

[1]

Al-Haj Baddar SW. Designing Sorting Networks: A New Paradigm. Batcher KE, editor. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cohen JA, Rae-Grant A. Treatment of acute relapses of multiple sclerosis. In: Rae-Grant A, editor. Handbook of Multiple Sclerosis. Tarporley: Springer Healthcare Ltd.; 2010. p. 25–28.

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 Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. A Nazi Time Capsule Has Been Unearthed At A Former Training Camp [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/a-nazi-time-capsule-has-been-unearthed-at-a-former-training-camp/.

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 Crisis: Office of Thrift Supervision’s Efforts to Ensure Thrift Systems Are Year 2000 Compliant. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998. Report No.: T-AIMD-98-102. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Bradford A. Internationalization Policy at the Genba: Exploring the Implementation of Social Science English-Taught Undergraduate Degree Programs in Three Japanese Universities [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2015.

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]

Kelly C. The Joy of a “Girl Racer” and a Wish for More. New York Times. 1998 Aug 23;810.

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 Technology
Abbreviation	Mater. Technol. (UK)
ISSN (print)	1066-7857
ISSN (online)	1753-5557
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics