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]

C. Willyard, Tiny steps towards an HIV vaccine, Nature 466 (2010) S8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

W.M. Getz, J.O. Lloyd-Smith, Comment on “On the regulation of populations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects” I, Science 311 (2006) 1100; author reply 1100.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

W. Winkler, A. Nahvi, R.R. Breaker, Thiamine derivatives bind messenger RNAs directly to regulate bacterial gene expression, Nature 419 (2002) 952–956.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.D. Dowell, O. Ryan, A. Jansen, D. Cheung, S. Agarwala, T. Danford, D.A. Bernstein, P.A. Rolfe, L.E. Heisler, B. Chin, C. Nislow, G. Giaever, P.C. Phillips, G.R. Fink, D.K. Gifford, C. Boone, Genotype to phenotype: a complex problem, Science 328 (2010) 469.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E. Hey, Neonatal Formulary 6, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

E. Brézin, Random Matrix Theory with an External Source, Springer, Singapore, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F.F. Faletra, S. de Castro, N.G. Pandian, I. Kronzon, H.-J. Nesser, S.Y. Ho, The Aortic Valve and the Aorta, in: S. Castro, N.G. Pandian, I. Kronzon, H.-J. Nesser, S. Yen Ho (Eds.), Atlas of Real Time 3D Transesophageal Echocardiography, Springer, London, 2010: pp. 47–62.

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]

S. Luntz, New York Males Have More Aggressive Sperm, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-york-males-have-aggressive-sperm/ (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, Transportation Security Infrastructure Modernization May Enhance DHS Screening Capabilities, but It Is Too Early to Assess Results, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.B. Jernigan, Use of uprooted invasive buffelgrass (Pennisetum ciliare ) parent plants as thatch to reduce progeny seedling emergence, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2013.

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]

L. Saslow, Insider Named President of Farmingdale College, New York Times (2007) LI2.

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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