How to format your references using the Materials Today Advances citation style

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

K. Urquhart, European research. Directive could give postdocs permanency, Science. 298 (2002) 724.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

I.F. Mirabel, I. Rodrigues, Formation of a black hole in the dark, Science. 300 (2003) 1119–1120.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Unniraman, S.D. Fugmann, D.G. Schatz, Immunology. UNGstoppable switching, Science. 305 (2004) 1113–1114.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Keller, J. Rackwitz, E. Cauët, J. Liévin, T. Körzdörfer, A. Rotaru, K.V. Gothelf, F. Besenbacher, I. Bald, Sequence dependence of electron-induced DNA strand breakage revealed by DNA nanoarrays, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7391.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Berthier, K.A. Brakke, E. Berthier, Open Microfluidics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

U. Erdemir, E. Yildiz, eds., Esthetic and Functional Management of Diastema: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Selden, Bioartificial Liver, in: V. Nedović, R. Willaert (Eds.), Applications of Cell Immobilisation Biotechnology, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005: pp. 69–83.

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 Today Advances.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Watch A Parachute Drop Go Wrong As Three Cars Slam Into The Ground, IFLScience. (2016).

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, Telecommunications Network: NASA Could Better Manage Its Planned Consolidation, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.M. Fountain, Differences in Generational Work Values in America and Their Implications for Educational Leadership: A Longitudinal Test of Twenge’s Model, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 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]

M.D. Shear, ‘I’m President and They’re Not’: Trump Attack Brings Crowd to Its Feet, New York Times. (2017) A18.

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 Today Advances
ISSN (print)	2590-0498
Scope