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

[1]

Kazazian H H Jr 2004 Mobile elements: drivers of genome evolution Science 303 1626–32

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rohde P P and Dowling J P 2015 QUANTUM OPTICS. The on-ramp to the all-optical quantum information processing highway Science 349 696

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Simon P, Gogotsi Y and Dunn B 2014 Materials science. Where do batteries end and supercapacitors begin? Science 343 1210–1

A journal article with 99 or more authors

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Rakhilin S V, Olson P A, Nishi A, Starkova N N, Fienberg A A, Nairn A C, Surmeier D J and Greengard P 2004 A network of control mediated by regulator of calcium/calmodulin-dependent signaling Science 306 698–701

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Dmytryk R 2011 Wildlife Search and Rescue (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd)

An edited book

[1]

Schmidt A U, Russello G, Krontiris I and Lian S 2012 Security and Privacy in Mobile Information and Communication Systems: 4th International Conference, MobiSec 2012, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, June 25-26, 2012, Revised Selected Papers vol 107 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

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Tikhonov A and Klypin A 2008 Properties of Voids in the Local Volume Galaxies in the Local Volume Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings ed H Jerjen and B S Koribalski (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands) pp 31–6

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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Hale T 2016 A 75-Pound Pearl Has Been Hidden Under A Fisherman’s Bed For 10 Years 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 2005 Student Consolidation Loans: Potential Effects of Making Fiscal Year 2006 Consolidation Loans Exclusively through the Direct Loan Program (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

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Shelton-Quinn A 2009 Increasing positive peer reporting and on -task behavior using a peer monitoring interdependent group contingency program with public posting Doctoral dissertation (Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State University)

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]

Prochnik G 2015 Days of Observance New York Times BR16

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