How to format your references using the Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

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Martin E E 2015 Earth science: Ocean circulation and rapid climate change Nature 517 30–1

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lauder J M and Oppenheim R 2001 Obituary. Viktor Hamburger (1900-2001) Nature 412 496

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kirk P D W, Babtie A C and Stumpf M P H 2015 SYSTEMS BIOLOGY. Systems biology (un)certainties Science 350 386–8

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Son D H, Hughes S M, Yin Y and Paul Alivisatos A 2004 Cation exchange reactions in ionic nanocrystals Science 306 1009–12

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Promislow S D 2010 Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Gallud J A, Tesoriero R and Penichet V M R 2011 Distributed User Interfaces: Designing Interfaces for the Distributed Ecosystem (London: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

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Pardalopoulos S I, Pantazopoulou S J and Kontari M T 2015 Rapid Seismic Assessment Procedure of Masonry Buildings with Historic Value Seismic Assessment, Behavior and Retrofit of Heritage Buildings and Monuments Computational Methods in Applied Sciences ed I N Psycharis, S J Pantazopoulou and M Papadrakakis (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 113–37

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 Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering.

Blog post

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Carpineti A 2016 A Moderate Solar Storm Is Hitting Earth As We Speak IFLScience

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

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Government Accountability Office 2002 Financial Management: Amtrak’s Route Profitability Schedules Need Improvement (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hylton J K 2016 Scatter; Or, A Series or Minor Inconveniences Doctoral dissertation ( Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana)

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

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Shear M D and Yourish K 2017 Vetoed Claim: Trump Is No. 1 In Bills Signed New York Times A1

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	Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	Model. Simul. Mat. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	0965-0393
ISSN (online)	1361-651X
Scope	Computer Science Applications Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Modelling and Simulation Condensed Matter Physics