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]

C.D.L. Wynne, The perils of anthropomorphism, Nature 428 (2004) 606.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Swinbanks, D. Cyranoski, Taiwan backs experience in quest for biotech success, Nature 407 (2000) 417–426.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.-Y. Sun, X.-S. Wu, L.-G. Wu, Single and multiple vesicle fusion induce different rates of endocytosis at a central synapse, Nature 417 (2002) 555–559.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Li, J. Zhu, Z. Man, Y. Ao, H. Chen, Investigation on the structure and upconversion fluorescence of Yb³⁺/Ho³⁺ co-doped fluorapatite crystals for potential biomedical applications, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4446.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.R. Moeller, Executive’s Guide to IT Governance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

P.J. Gilmer, B. Tansel, M.H. Miller, eds., Alliances for Advancing Academic Women: Guidelines for Collaborating in STEM Fields, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Cruse, M. Schilling, Action Selection within Short Time Windows, in: A. Duff, N.F. Lepora, A. Mura, T.J. Prescott, P.F.M.J. Verschure (Eds.), Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: Third International Conference, Living Machines 2014, Milan, Italy, July 30 – August 1, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 47–58.

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]

E. Andrew, Quit Sugar, Go Paleo, Embrace ‘Clean Food’: The Power Of Celebrity Nutrition, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/quit-sugar-go-paleo-embrace-clean-food-power-celebrity-nutrition/ (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, Earth Observing System: Information on NASA’s Selection of Data Centers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.C. Corral, A grant proposal: Parent and adolescent support group, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

S. Hodara, Making All the World Their Stage, New York Times (2015) WE9.

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