How to format your references using the Metamaterials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Metamaterials. 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	Download the output style file
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]

M.J.L. Coolen, 7000 years of Emiliania huxleyi viruses in the Black Sea, Science 333 (2011) 451–452.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.A. Enquist Jr, B.M. Stoltz, The total synthesis of (-)-cyanthiwigin F by means of double catalytic enantioselective alkylation, Nature 453 (2008) 1228–1231.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.S. Solis, J. Haas, W. Creamer, Dating Caral, a preceramic site in the Supe Valley on the central coast of Peru, Science 292 (2001) 723–726.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

N. Kaina, M. Dupré, G. Lerosey, M. Fink, Shaping complex microwave fields in reverberating media with binary tunable metasurfaces, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.M. Metzger, The Physical Chemist’s Toolbox, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

J. Komorowski, ed., ICAF 2011 Structural Integrity: Influence of Efficiency and Green Imperatives: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue, Montreal, Canada, 1-3 June 2011, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Moolman, E. Marais, S. Genade, S. Makaula, A. Lochner, The Role of the Beta-Adrenergic Signal Transduction Pathway in Myocardial Protection, in: A.K. Srivastava, M.B. Anand-Srivastava (Eds.), Signal Transduction in the Cardiovascular System in Health and Disease, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008: pp. 67–87.

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 Metamaterials.

Blog post

[1]

S. Luntz, White Roofs Cut Energy Consumption In Cool Climates Too, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/white-roofs-cut-energy-consumption-cool-climates/ (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, National Laboratories: Better Performance Reporting Could Aid Oversight of Laboratory-Directed R&D Program, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.L. D’Ambrosio, Perspectives on the Geomorphic Evolution and Ecology of Modified Channels and Two-Stage Ditches in the Agriculturally-Dominated Midwestern United States, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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]

B. Brantley, The Fight to Stay Alive, 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	Metamaterials
Abbreviation	Metamaterials
ISSN (print)	1873-1988
Scope	Electrical and Electronic Engineering Biomaterials Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Modelling and Simulation Condensed Matter Physics Surfaces and Interfaces