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]

D.A. Garsin, Microbiology. Peptide signals sense and destroy target cells, Science 306 (2004) 2202–2203.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Y.T. Didenko, K.S. Suslick, The energy efficiency of formation of photons, radicals and ions during single-bubble cavitation, Nature 418 (2002) 394–397.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.S. Yoo, C. Bais, I. Greenwald, Crosstalk between the EGFR and LIN-12/Notch pathways in C. elegans vulval development, Science 303 (2004) 663–666.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Doiron-Leyraud, C. Proust, D. LeBoeuf, J. Levallois, J.-B. Bonnemaison, R. Liang, D.A. Bonn, W.N. Hardy, L. Taillefer, Quantum oscillations and the Fermi surface in an underdoped high-Tc superconductor, Nature 447 (2007) 565–568.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Lehto, X. Hou, Chemistry and Analysis of Radionuclides, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M. José Escalona, G. Aragón, H. Linger, M. Lang, C. Barry, C. Schneider, eds., Information System Development: Improving Enterprise Communication, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C.-S. Chan, A. Dang, Z. Tong, A 3D Model of the Inner City of Beijing, in: B. Martens, A. Brown (Eds.), Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005: Proceedings of the 11th International CAAD Futures Conference Held at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, on June 20–22, 2005, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005: pp. 63–72.

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]

K. Evans, Eating Real Meat Without Killing Animals Could Be A Reality, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/eating-real-meat-without-killing-animals-could-be-a-reality/ (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, Electronic Government: Implementation of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.L. Bade, Extending the benefits of alcohol and drug treatment: An exploration of volunteer utilization and delivery of recovery services, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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]

J. Williams, A Civil War Classic Endures, New York Times (2016) BR4.

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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