How to format your references using the Matter and Radiation at Extremes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 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]

S.S. Hecht, Perspective: Tackling the real issues, Nature 471 (2011) S18.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.W. Lewcock, R.R. Reed, Neuroscience. ORs rule the roost in the olfactory system, Science 302 (2003) 2078–2079.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.W. Hart, M.P. Housley, C. Slawson, Cycling of O-linked beta-N-acetylglucosamine on nucleocytoplasmic proteins, Nature 446 (2007) 1017–1022.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Greig, E.J. Louis, R.H. Borts, M. Travisano, Hybrid speciation in experimental populations of yeast, Science 298 (2002) 1773–1775.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Gasch, B. Gasch, Successfully Choosing Your EMR, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

T. Malkin, ed., Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2008: The Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2008, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 8-11, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.R. Blackett, P. Alaupovic, K. Short, K.C. Copeland, Assessment and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease in Obese Children, in: R.J. Ferry Jr. (Ed.), Management of Pediatric Obesity and Diabetes, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2011: pp. 101–140.

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 Matter and Radiation at Extremes.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Mature Nerve Cells Made from Skin Cells, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mature-nerve-cells-made-skin-cells/ (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 Safety: Targeting and Training of FAA’s Safety Inspector Workforce, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.T. Cashion, Exploring Dielectric Absorption: Data Collection System Development, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2010.

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]

H. Yanagihara, Nowhere Man, New York Times (2017) M2128.

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	Matter and Radiation at Extremes
ISSN (print)	2468-080X
Scope