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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Materials Today Energy. 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.E.W. Bauer, Applied physics. Mesmerizing semiconductors, Science 306 (2004) 1898–1899.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.G. Sarafianos, E. Arnold, Biochemistry. RT slides home., Science 322 (2008) 1059–1060.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L.F. Scatena, M.G. Brown, G.L. Richmond, Water at hydrophobic surfaces: weak hydrogen bonding and strong orientation effects, Science 292 (2001) 908–912.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Jin, A. Rummel, T. Binz, A.T. Brunger, Botulinum neurotoxin B recognizes its protein receptor with high affinity and specificity, Nature 444 (2006) 1092–1095.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.V. Rangarao, R.K. Mallik, Digital Signal Processing, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

S. Abdinia, Design of Organic Complementary Circuits and Systems on Foil, 1st ed. 2015, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Olivi, M. Olivi, Laser–Hard Tissue Interaction, in: G. Olivi, M. Olivi (Eds.), Lasers in Restorative Dentistry: A Practical Guide, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015: pp. 51–85.

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 Energy.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Natural Selection In Black And White: How Industrial Pollution Changed Moths, IFLScience (2015).

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: FCC Needs to Improve Its Ability to Monitor and Determine the Extent of Competition in Dedicated Access Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.H. Wadhwa, Secure building automation system using Tesla protocol, Doctoral dissertation, 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]

L. Conte, Scouting Report, New York Times (2011) E5.

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 Energy
ISSN (print)	2468-6069
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