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 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

[1]

N. Savage, Technology: Dancing with robots, Nature 492 (2012) S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P. Wickware, P. Smaglik, Labs and companies seek their niches as work continues after the draft, Nature 409 (2001) 961–963.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.G. Hollingsworth, J.W. Armstrong, E. Campbell, Caffeine as a repellent for slugs and snails, Nature 417 (2002) 915–916.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Stellamanns, S. Uppaluri, A. Hochstetter, N. Heddergott, M. Engstler, T. Pfohl, Optical trapping reveals propulsion forces, power generation and motility efficiency of the unicellular parasites Trypanosoma brucei brucei, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H.I. Weisberg, Willful Ignorance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

L.W. Szajdak, ed., Bioactive Compounds in Agricultural Soils, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Berghammer, G. Struth, On Automated Program Construction and Verification, in: C. Bolduc, J. Desharnais, B. Ktari (Eds.), Mathematics of Program Construction: 10th International Conference, MPC 2010, Québec City, Canada, June 21-23, 2010. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: pp. 22–41.

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]

B. Taub, Being Overweight Ages Your Brain By Ten Years, 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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Continuing Risks of Disruption to Social Security, Medicare, and Treasury Programs, 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]

J.W. Edwards, The Relation Between Expressed Emotion and Adolescent Psychopathology, Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2006.

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. Barron, Long-Ago Brooklyn Brewer Left Hidden Underground Vaults, and Mystery, New York Times (2017) A23.

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