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]

W. Colglazier, SUSTAINABILITY. Sustainable development agenda: 2030, Science 349 (2015) 1048–1050.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.W. Yewdell, W.L. Ince, Virology. Frameshifting to PA-X influenza, Science 337 (2012) 164–165.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.G. Puckett, D.H. Kelley, N.T. Ouellette, Searching for effective forces in laboratory insect swarms, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4766.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Tarricone, B. Xiao, N. Justin, P.A. Walker, K. Rittinger, S.J. Gamblin, S.J. Smerdon, The structural basis of Arfaptin-mediated cross-talk between Rac and Arf signalling pathways, Nature 411 (2001) 215–219.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

L. Doldi, Validation of Communications Systems with SDL, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

J.M. Fernandes, R.J. Machado, K. Wnuk, eds., Software Business: 6th International Conference, ICSOB 2015, Braga, Portugal, June 10-12, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. Ballester, M.L. Blázquez, F. González, J.A. Muñoz, Catalytic Role of Silver and Other Ions on The Mechanism of Chemical and Biological Leaching, in: E.R. Donati, W. Sand (Eds.), Microbial Processing of Metal Sulfides, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 77–101.

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]

R. Andrews, NASA Successfully Tests New Heat Shield Designed For Breaching Mars’ Atmosphere, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-successfully-tests-new-heat-shield-designed-future-martian-exploration-missions/ (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, Information Security: Federal Communications Commission Needs to Strengthen Controls over Enhanced Secured Network Project, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Torres, Grassroots in Santa Ana: Identity and conceptualizing community, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

D. Bilefsky, Romanian President Survives Ouster Bid, New York Times (2012) A8.

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