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]

V. Bromm, Astronomy. Imprint of an ancient conflagration, Science 345 (2014) 868–869.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S. Benartzi, R.H. Thaler, Economics. Behavioral economics and the retirement savings crisis, Science 339 (2013) 1152–1153.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Mukhopadhyay, K.A. Farley, A. Montanari, A short duration of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event: evidence from extraterrestrial helium-3, Science 291 (2001) 1952–1955.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G. Suárez, C. Santschi, V.I. Slaveykova, O.J.F. Martin, Sensing the dynamics of oxidative stress using enhanced absorption in protein-loaded random media, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3447.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C. Cauvin, F. Escobar, A. Serradj, Cartography and the Impact of the Quantitative Revolution, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

S. Bernstein, U. Kähler, I. Sabadini, F. Sommen, eds., Modern Trends in Hypercomplex Analysis, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M. Ham, G. Agha, A Study of Coordinated Dynamic Market-Based Task Assignment in Massively Multi-Agent Systems, in: N. Jamali, P. Scerri, T. Sugawara (Eds.), Massively Multi-Agent Technology: AAMAS Workshops, MMAS 2006, LSMAS 2006, and CCMMS 2007 Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006 Honolulu, HI, USA, May 15, 2007 Selected and Revised Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 43–63.

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]

E. Andrew, Young Blood Speeds Healing Of Old Broken Bones, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/young-blood-helps-old-broken-bones-heal/ (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, Equal Employment Opportunity: Actions Needed for FAA to Implement Committee Recommendations in the Airline Industry, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.L. Toler, Structural Equation Modeling of Advertising Involvement, Consumer Attitude, and Engagement for Video Advertising in a Social Networking Site, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2017.

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]

T. Cowen, Open Markets, but Maybe Not Open Minds, New York Times (2015) BU6.

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
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