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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Davidson L A 2008 Developmental biology. Apoptosis turbocharges epithelial morphogenesis Science 321 1641–2

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dudai Y and Carruthers M 2005 The Janus face of Mnemosyne Nature 434 567

A journal article with 3 authors

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Holt L J, Krutchinsky A N and Morgan D O 2008 Positive feedback sharpens the anaphase switch Nature 454 353–7

A journal article with 99 or more authors

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Tu D C, Batten M L, Palczewski K and Van Gelder R N 2004 Nonvisual photoreception in the chick iris Science 306 129–31

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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Jamison D C 2005 Perl Programming for Biologists (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

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Bosch P, Gabelaia D and Lang J 2009 Logic, Language, and Computation: 7th International Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language, and Computation, TbiLLC 2007, Tbilisi, Georgia, October 1-5, 2007. Revised Selected Papers vol 5422 (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

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McCluggage W G 2014 Malignant Glandular Lesions of the Cervix Cellular Pathology of Glandular Lesions and Uncommon Neoplasms of the Cervix ed J Tidy and J H F Smith (London: Springer) pp 71–111

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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Davis J 2017 Taliban Issue Unusual Statement Encouraging Afghans To Plant Trees 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 Credit Reporting Literacy: Consumers Understood the Basics but Could Benefit from Targeted Educational Efforts (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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McCafferty B 2009 Chalk Talk Doctoral dissertation (College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park)

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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Greenhouse L 2008 Court Sets Fall Debate On Standards Of Water Act New York Times A14

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