How to format your references using the Microporous and Mesoporous Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. 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. Boehm, Ancestral hierarchy and conflict, Science 336 (2012) 844–847.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.W. Virgin, B.D. Walker, Immunology and the elusive AIDS vaccine, Nature 464 (2010) 224–231.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Browne, A. Tunnacliffe, A. Burnell, Anhydrobiosis: plant desiccation gene found in a nematode, Nature 416 (2002) 38.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-K. Lee, S. Lee, Y.-I. Kim, J.-G. Kim, B.-K. Min, K.-I. Lee, Y. Park, P. John, The seeded growth of graphene, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5682.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

X. Gu, N. Jiang, K. Ji, H. Li, X. Qiu, W. Li, X. Ji, H. Du, B. Sheng, H. Huang, Self-healing Control Technology for Distribution Networks, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

G.A. Ascoli, M. Hawrylycz, H. Ali, D. Khazanchi, Y. Shi, eds., Brain Informatics and Health: International Conference, BIH 2016, Omaha, NE, USA, October 13-16, 2016 Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

N. Goñi, I. Arregui, A. Lezama, H. Arrizabalaga, G. Moreno, Small Scale Vertical Behaviour of Juvenile Albacore in Relation to Their Biotic Environment in the Bay of Biscay, in: J.L. Nielsen, H. Arrizabalaga, N. Fragoso, A. Hobday, M. Lutcavage, J. Sibert (Eds.), Tagging and Tracking of Marine Animals with Electronic Devices, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009: pp. 51–73.

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 Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Monsanto Strikes Deal To Use CRISPR Gene-Editing Technology In Food, IFLScience (2016).

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, Managed Care Initiatives, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Rey, Chaos, Observability and Symplectic Structure in Optimal Estimation, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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]

M. Walker, Choosing Photographs Over Paintings, New York Times (2017) C14.

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	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
Abbreviation	Microporous Mesoporous Mater.
ISSN (print)	1387-1811
Scope	General Chemistry Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics