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]

J.R. Brown, ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Privatizing the University--the New Tragedy of the Commons, Science. 290 (2000) 1701–1702.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A.Y.K. Albert, S.P. Otto, Sexual selection can resolve sex-linked sexual antagonism, Science. 310 (2005) 119–121.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.N. Weber, B.K. Peterson, H.E. Hoekstra, Discrete genetic modules are responsible for complex burrow evolution in Peromyscus mice, Nature. 493 (2013) 402–405.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.J. Heckenberger, J.C. Russell, C. Fausto, J.R. Toney, M.J. Schmidt, E. Pereira, B. Franchetto, A. Kuikuro, Pre-Columbian urbanism, anthropogenic landscapes, and the future of the Amazon, Science. 321 (2008) 1214–1217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.S. Cantrell, C. Cosner, Spatial Ecology via Reaction-Diffusion Equations, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2004.

An edited book

[1]

V.C.H. Tong, ed., Geoscience Research and Education: Teaching at Universities, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

T. Larsen, B.A. Smith, B. Rosenbloom, Culture and Communication in International Marketing Channels, in: A.K. Manrai, H.L. Meadow (Eds.), Global Perspectives in Marketing for the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 1999 World Marketing Congress, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 13–14.

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]

A. Carpineti, Could Dark Energy Contribute To The Arrow Of Time?, 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, Aviation Security: FAA Preboard Passenger Screening Test Results, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D. Mihalcin, A comparison of the Children’s Functional Assessment Rating Scale and the Child Behavior Checklist used in a wraparound program, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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. Gorman, Older Bonobos Could Sure Use Some Glasses, New York Times. (2016) D6.

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

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