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]

Ledford H. Ahead of the pack. Nature. 2009;459(7244):286–287.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Brockes JP, Kumar A. Appendage regeneration in adult vertebrates and implications for regenerative medicine. Science. 2005;310(5756):1919–1923.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wood BJ, Halliday AN, Rehkämper M. Volatile accretion history of the Earth. Nature. 2010;467(7319):E6-7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Martincorena I, Fowler JC, Wabik A, et al. Somatic mutant clones colonize the human esophagus with age. Science. 2018;362(6417):911–917.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Baker KR. Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Bonnelle C. Rare-Earths and Actinides in High Energy Spectroscopy. Spector N, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Das ML. Strong Security and Privacy of RFID System for Internet of Things Infrastructure. In: Gierlichs B, Guilley S, Mukhopadhyay D, editors. Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering: Third International Conference, SPACE 2013, Kharagpur, India, October 19-23, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 56–69.

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]

Andrew E. How To Predict The Next Plant Disease Epidemic [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-predict-next-plant-disease-epidemic/.

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. Next Generation Air Transportation System: Issues Associated with Midterm Implementation of Capabilities and Full System Transformation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009. Report No.: GAO-09-481T. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Mendoza-Williams J. Road to success: The experiences of academically successful graduation-bound African American males [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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]

Saslow L. Suffolk Seeks Ways to Ease School Taxes. New York Times. 2007 Jan 14;14LI2.

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