How to format your references using the Materials Today: Proceedings citation style

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

R. Cocroft, An ecologist marvels at animals that learn to eavesdrop, Nature 460 (2009) 439.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Strome, R. Lehmann, Germ versus soma decisions: lessons from flies and worms, Science 316 (2007) 392–393.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.-W. Lin, C.-S. Dai, K.-C. Hung, High energy density asymmetric supercapacitor based on NiOOH/Ni3S2/3D graphene and Fe3O4/graphene composite electrodes, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 7274.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Tao, J. Wang, Y. Li, D. Xia, H. Shan, H. Xu, J.R. Lu, Short peptide-directed synthesis of one-dimensional platinum nanostructures with controllable morphologies, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2565.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F.J. Waller, Writing Chemistry Patents and Intellectual Property, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

J.J. (jong H. Park, S.-C. Chen, J.-M. Gil, N.Y. Yen, eds., Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Kreuzer, L. Robbiano, Zero-Dimensional Affine Algebras, in: L. Robbiano (Ed.), Computational Linear and Commutative Algebra, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016: pp. 131–184.

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: Proceedings.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Mother Dolphins Sing To Their Babies In The Womb, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/mother-dolphins-sing-to-their-babies-in-the-womb/ (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, Proprietary Schools: Poorer Student Outcomes at Schools That Rely More on Federal Student Aid, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

B. Kim, Essays in the Dynamics Bayesian Models in Marketing, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

M. Callahan, Suspense, New York Times (2017) BR26.

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: Proceedings
Abbreviation	Mater. Today
ISSN (print)	2214-7853
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