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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
S. Naeem, Ecology. Green with complexity, Science 319 (2008) 913–914.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
E.F. Schubert, J.K. Kim, Solid-state light sources getting smart, Science 308 (2005) 1274–1278.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
I.A. Grenier, J.-M. Casandjian, R. Terrier, Unveiling extensive clouds of dark gas in the solar neighborhood, Science 307 (2005) 1292–1295.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
A.B. Clarke, B. Voight, A. Neri, G. Macedonio, Transient dynamics of vulcanian explosions and column collapse, Nature 415 (2002) 897–901.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
N. Moreau, Tools for Signal Compression, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA, 2013.
An edited book
[1]
A.A. Pinto, E. Accinelli Gamba, A.N. Yannacopoulos, C. Hervés-Beloso, eds., Trends in Mathematical Economics: Dialogues Between Southern Europe and Latin America, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
S. Lucks, A. Schuler, E. Tews, R.-P. Weinmann, M. Wenzel, Attacks on the DECT Authentication Mechanisms, in: M. Fischlin (Ed.), Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2009: The Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 20-24, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 48–65.

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]
K. Hamilton, Why Health Implants Should Have Open Source Code, 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, Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill in Oregon, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
L. Li, Internal conflicts through external design: Costuming the contradictions in “The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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. Wagner, Catch of the Year So Far. No Ball Involved, New York Times (2017) D4.

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 titleMicroporous and Mesoporous Materials
AbbreviationMicroporous Mesoporous Mater.
ISSN (print)1387-1811
ScopeGeneral Chemistry
Mechanics of Materials
General Materials Science
Condensed Matter Physics

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