How to format your references using the Procedia Materials Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Procedia Materials Science. 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]

R.A. McDonald, Animal health: How to control bovine tuberculosis, Nature 511 (2014) 158–159.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

T. Jucker, D.A. Coomes, Comment on “Plant species richness and ecosystem multifunctionality in global drylands,” Science 337 (2012) 155; author reply 155.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P.M. Coplan, M. Mitchnick, Z.F. Rosenberg, Public health. Regulatory challenges in microbicide development, Science 304 (2004) 1911–1912.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Balili, V. Hartwell, D. Snoke, L. Pfeiffer, K. West, Bose-Einstein condensation of microcavity polaritons in a trap, Science 316 (2007) 1007–1010.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

M. Molloy, W. Larner, Fashioning Globalisation, John Wiley & Sons, Oxford, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

H. Hargitai, Á. Kereszturi, eds., Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms, Springer, New York, NY, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

O. Hartig, J. Pérez, LDQL: A Query Language for the Web of Linked Data, in: M. Arenas, O. Corcho, E. Simperl, M. Strohmaier, M. d’Aquin, K. Srinivas, P. Groth, M. Dumontier, J. Heflin, K. Thirunarayan, S. Staab (Eds.), The Semantic Web - ISWC 2015: 14th International Semantic Web Conference, Bethlehem, PA, USA, October 11-15, 2015, Proceedings, Part I, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 73–91.

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 Procedia Materials Science.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Ancient Viral DNA Necessary For Pluripotency in Embryonic Stem Cells, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ancient-viral-dna-necessary-pluripotency-embryonic-stem-cells/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Pipeline Safety: New Risk Assessment Program Could Help Evaluate Inspection Cycle, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

R.L. Martin, Development of a Nutrition Program with Emphasis on Use of Social Media for Middle School Students, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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]

S. Kishkovsky, ‘Spring’ Festival as Rite of Refreshment, New York Times (2013) AR10.

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	Procedia Materials Science
ISSN (print)	2211-8128
Scope