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]

Fischer K M 2002 Waning buoyancy in the crustal roots of old mountains Nature 417 933–6

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shapiro N M and Koulakov I 2015 Geophysics. Probing the underbelly of a supervolcano Science 348 758–9

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gu Y, Lee W and Shen J 2014 Site-2 protease responds to oxidative stress and regulates oxidative injury in mammalian cells Sci. Rep. 4 6268

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Corces M R, Granja J M, Shams S, Louie B H, Seoane J A, Zhou W, Silva T C, Groeneveld C, Wong C K, Cho S W, Satpathy A T, Mumbach M R, Hoadley K A, Robertson A G, Sheffield N C, Felau I, Castro M A A, Berman B P, Staudt L M, Zenklusen J C, Laird P W, Curtis C, Cancer Genome Atlas Analysis Network, Greenleaf W J and Chang H Y 2018 The chromatin accessibility landscape of primary human cancers Science 362

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sharon M and Sharon M 2015 Graphene (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Jacobs G M 2016 Simple, Powerful Strategies for Student Centered Learning ed W A Renandya and M Power (Cham: Springer International Publishing)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wilding J P H 2008 Sibutramine Pharmacotherapy of Obesity Milestones in Drug Therapy ed J P H Wilding (Basel: Birkhäuser) pp 59–68

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

[1]

Carpineti A 2017 Physicists Take Particle Accelerator On 5,000-Kilometer Trip To Understand The Nature Of Muons 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office 2002 Information Technology: Enterprise Architecture Use Across the Federal Government Can Be Improved (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]

Hitchings J D 2008 Teachers’ perceptions of evidence-based decision making: A case study of three schools in British Columbia Doctoral dissertation (Phoenix, AZ: University of Phoenix)

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]

St. John Kelly E 2004 Bensonhurst Journal; The Time Has Come to Ride and Beep and Laugh Again New York Times 133

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