How to format your references using the Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials. 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	Download the output style file
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]

S.R. Taylor, Why can’t planets be like stars?, Nature 430 (2004) 509.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.A. Armitage, P.B. Berget, Chemistry. An enlightening structure-function relationship, Science 319 (2008) 1195–1196.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.C. Tellis, D.N. Primer, G.A. Molander, Dual catalysis. Single-electron transmetalation in organoboron cross-coupling by photoredox/nickel dual catalysis, Science 345 (2014) 433–436.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Rehmann, E. Arias-Palomo, M.A. Hadders, F. Schwede, O. Llorca, J.L. Bos, Structure of Epac2 in complex with a cyclic AMP analogue and RAP1B, Nature 455 (2008) 124–127.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Hadjsaïd, J.-C. Sabonnadière, Power Systems and Restructuring, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

R. Allemang, J. De Clerck, C. Niezrecki, A. Wicks, eds., Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 31st IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2013, Springer, New York, NY, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.-S. Oh, Sustainable Development of Technopolis: Case Study of Daedeok Science Town/Innopolis in Korea, in: D.-S. Oh, F. Phillips (Eds.), Technopolis: Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities, Springer, London, 2014: pp. 91–116.

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 Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, People Are Freaking Out Over This Dead “Mermaid” On A UK Beach, IFLScience (2016).

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, Social Security Administration: Information Technology Challenges Facing the Commissioner, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.T. Learn, Differentiating instruction on the basis of cognitive tools: A case study of honors and mainstream middle school classes, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2012.

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]

L. Greenhouse, Justices to Review Federal Ban On Disputed Abortion Method, New York Times (2006) A1.

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	Progress in Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials
ISSN (print)	0960-8974
Scope	General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics