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

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

G.S. Paul, Comment on “Narrow primary feather rachises in Confuciusornis and Archaeopteryx suggest poor flight ability,” Science 330 (2010) 320; author reply 320.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Jutzi, E. Asphaug, COMETARY NUCLEI. The shape and structure of cometary nuclei as a result of low-velocity accretion, Science 348 (2015) 1355–1358.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Tilmes, R. Müller, R. Salawitch, The sensitivity of polar ozone depletion to proposed geoengineering schemes, Science 320 (2008) 1201–1204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Nomata, T. Kondo, T. Mizoguchi, H. Tamiaki, S. Itoh, Y. Fujita, Dark-operative protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase generates substrate radicals by an iron-sulphur cluster in bacteriochlorophyll biosynthesis, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M.K. Bennett, Affine and Projective Geometry, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 1995.

An edited book

[1]

H.T. Shen, J. Pei, M.T. Özsu, L. Zou, J. Lu, T.-W. Ling, G. Yu, Y. Zhuang, J. Shao, eds., Web-Age Information Management: WAIM 2010 International Workshops: IWGD 2010, XMLDM 2010, WCMT 2010, Jiuzhaigou Valley, China, July 15-17, 2010 Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.J. Meredith, Attachment Theory and Pain, in: J. Hunter, R. Maunder (Eds.), Improving Patient Treatment with Attachment Theory: A Guide for Primary Care Practitioners and Specialists, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 55–73.

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 Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Chimpanzees use hand gestures to locate food, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chimpanzees-use-hand-gestures-locate-food/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Is Addressing Challenges of Its Expanded Mission and Workforce, but Additional Actions Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.E. Gauen, The impact of the Instructional Practices Inventory at an Illinois middle school, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2009.

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]

K. Kelly, B. Appelbaum, Yellen and Trump Aide Are Said to Be on Shortlist for New Leader of the Fed, New York Times (2017) A20.

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 Chemistry
ISSN (print)	2468-5194
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