How to format your references using the Progress in Solid State Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Progress in Solid State Chemistry. 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]

Macilwain C. Sharing information is preferable to patenting. Nature 2013;498:273.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vidale JE, Earle PS. Fine-scale heterogeneity in the Earth’s inner core. Nature 2000;404:273–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Hayward RC, Saville DA, Aksay IA. Electrophoretic assembly of colloidal crystals with optically tunable micropatterns. Nature 2000;404:56–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wu Y, Cain-Hom C, Choy L, Hagenbeek TJ, de Leon GP, Chen Y, et al. Therapeutic antibody targeting of individual Notch receptors. Nature 2010;464:1052–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Corley RHV, Tinker PB. The Oil Palm. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Gendreau M, Potvin J-Y, editors. Handbook of Metaheuristics. vol. 146. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Heeager LT. The Agile and the Disciplined Software Approaches: Combinable or Just Compatible? In: Pooley R, Coady J, Schneider C, Linger H, Barry C, Lang M, editors. Information Systems Development: Reflections, Challenges and New Directions, New York, NY: Springer; 2013, p. 35–49.

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 Solid State Chemistry.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. From Perspiration To World Domination – The Extraordinary Science Of Sweat. 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. Discretionary Grants: Education Needs to Improve Its Oversight of Grants Monitoring. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Maitland J. Differences in Perceived Organizational Justice Based Upon Overall Performance Appraisal Ratings. Doctoral dissertation. Capella 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]

Barry D, Kovaleski SF, Blinder A, Mashal M. From Troubled Child to Aggrieved Killer. New York Times 2016: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 Solid State Chemistry
Abbreviation	Prog. Solid State Chem.
ISSN (print)	0079-6786
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics