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]

H. Brody, Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Nature 489 (2012) S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.K. Volkman, D.L. Hartl, Parasitology. A game of cat and mouth, Science 299 (2003) 353–354.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J. Ni, Q. Yan, Y. Yu, How much metagenomic sequencing is enough to achieve a given goal?, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1968.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.-S. Lee, P. Parasoglou, D. Xia, A. Jerschow, R.R. Regatte, Uniform magnetization transfer in chemical exchange saturation transfer magnetic resonance imaging, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1707.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

T. Alrifai, Islamic Finance and the New Financial System, John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

C.-K. Looi, L.W. Teh, eds., Scaling Educational Innovations, Springer, Singapore, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

W. Wang, X. Hu, On the View of Sustainable Development: The New Urbanization Evaluation and Construction Study of Shaanxi, in: D. Yang, Y. Qian (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014: pp. 27–40.

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]

E. Andrew, One Last Look At Saturn’s Moon Dione, IFLScience (2015).

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, Highway Infrastructure: Stakeholders’ Views on Time to Conduct Environmental Reviews of Highway Projects, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J.L. Randolph, A Mixed-Methods Investigation of FMS Shoulder Mobility and Reported Upper Body Injury in Collegiate Football Athletes at a Division II Midwestern University, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 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]

J.B. Stewart, For Now, Investors Go Back to Buying, New York Times (2016) B1.

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