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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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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di Lernia S 2015 Cultural heritage: Save Libyan archaeology Nature 517 547–9

A journal article with 2 authors

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Sugimoto N and Nagaosa N 2012 Spin-orbit echo Science 336 1413–6

A journal article with 3 authors

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Quax R, Kandhai D and Sloot P M A 2013 Information dissipation as an early-warning signal for the Lehman Brothers collapse in financial time series Sci. Rep. 3 1898

A journal article with 99 or more authors

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Cheng C, Guo H, Amini A, Liu K, Fu D, Zou J and Song H 2014 Self-assembly and horizontal orientation growth of VO2 nanowires Sci. Rep. 4 5456

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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Center for Chemical Process Safety 2010 Layer of Protection Analysis (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

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Chhieng D C and Siegal G P 2005 Updates in Diagnostic Pathology vol 563 (Boston, MA: Springer US)

A chapter in an edited book

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Buzzard K 2014 Computing Weight One Modular Forms over $\mathbb{C} and \overline{\mathbb{F}}_{p}$ Computations with Modular Forms: Proceedings of a Summer School and Conference, Heidelberg, August/September 2011 Contributions in Mathematical and Computational Sciences ed G Böckle and G Wiese (Cham: Springer International Publishing) pp 129–46

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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Fang J 2015 Ford Has Made All Its Hybrid And Electric Car Patents Available To Competitors 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 1992 Stafford Student Loans: Lower Subsidy Payments Could Achieve Savings Without Affecting Access (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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Ghosh D D 2017 Audio Watermarking Using DWT Algorithm and Symmetric Key Cryptography Doctoral dissertation (Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach)

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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Hollander S 2008 A Sisterhood Lays a Foundation in Football New York Times D2

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