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

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

I. Fuyuno, Japan: Will the sun set on Kampo?, Nature. 480 (2011) S96.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

K.R. Siefermann, B. Abel, Chemistry. Ion chemistry mediated by water networks, Science. 327 (2010) 280–281.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G. Tsiavaliaris, S. Fujita-Becker, D.J. Manstein, Molecular engineering of a backwards-moving myosin motor, Nature. 427 (2004) 558–561.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Hartig, G. Churakov, W.C. Warren, J. Brosius, W. Makałowski, J. Schmitz, Retrophylogenomics place tarsiers on the evolutionary branch of anthropoids, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1756.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Kitajima, Memory and Action Selection in Human-Machine Interaction, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

M.Z. Zgurovsky, Evolution Inclusions and Variation Inequalities for Earth Data Processing I: Operator Inclusions and Variation Inequalities for Earth Data Processing, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Rutgersson, J. Jaagus, F. Schenk, M. Stendel, L. Bärring, A. Briede, B. Claremar, I. Hanssen-Bauer, J. Holopainen, A. Moberg, Ø. Nordli, E. Rimkus, J. Wibig, Recent Change—Atmosphere, in: The BACC II Author Team (Ed.), Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 69–97.

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 Sustainability.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, SeaWorld CEO Resigns As Profits Tank After Animal Rights Backlash, IFLScience. (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seaworld-ceo-resigns-orca-anger-bites/ (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, Superfund: EPA Needs to Better Focus Cleanup Technology Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L. Li, Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

J. Swenson, New Orleans Celebrates Fats Domino, New York Times. (2017) C1.

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 Sustainability
ISSN (print)	2589-2347
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