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]

Cyranoski D. Japanese team makes stem cells. Nature. 2003;423:577.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kimura S, Yoshioka K. Parathyroid hormone and parathyroid hormone type-1 receptor accelerate myocyte differentiation. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5066.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Moreno M, Rosenau M, Oncken O. 2010 Maule earthquake slip correlates with pre-seismic locking of Andean subduction zone. Nature. 2010;467:198–202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Sun M, Liao H-G, Niu K, et al. Structural and morphological evolution of lead dendrites during electrochemical migration. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3227.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hampel FR, Ronchetti EM, Rousseeuw PJ, et al. Robust Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Malek S, editor. Advances in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Abbas MA, Iftikhar H, Gul A. Effect of Industrial Pollution on Crop Productivity. In: Hakeem KR, editor. Crop Production and Global Environmental Issues. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 123–151.

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. Keep Fidgeting, It Might Cancel Out The Negative Effects Of Prolonged Sitting [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/keep-fidgeting-it-might-cancel-out-negative-effects-prolonged-sitting/.

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. Army Training: Improvements Are Needed in 5-Ton Truck Driver Training and Supervision. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2001. Report No.: GAO-01-436. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Beard JA. Evidence of Leadership Competencies in the Journal of Mary Easton Sibley, a Pioneering 19th Century Women’s College Founder [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood University; 2014.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Georgia: Ex-Minister Arrested After Assailing President. New York Times. 2007 Sep 28;A8.

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

Research and Writing Guides