How to format your references using the Results in Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Results in 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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]

D.B. Searls, The language of genes, Nature 420 (2002) 211–217.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M.J.D. Rushton, A. Chroneos, Impact of uniaxial strain and doping on oxygen diffusion in CeO2, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6068.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

N.G. Copeland, N.A. Jenkins, S.J. O’Brien, Genomics. Mmu 16--comparative genomic highlights, Science 296 (2002) 1617–1618.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.E. Plummer, S. Bearhop, D.I. Leech, D.E. Chamberlain, J.D. Blount, Winter food provisioning reduces future breeding performance in a wild bird, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 2002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A.R. Willan, A.H. Briggs, Statistical Analysis of Cost-effectiveness Data, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

T. Matsuzawa, T. Humle, Y. Sugiyama, eds., The Chimpanzees of Bossou and Nimba, Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Manfredi, M. Devy, D. Sidobre, Textured Object Recognition: Balancing Model Robustness and Complexity, in: G. Azzopardi, N. Petkov (Eds.), Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 16th International Conference, CAIP 2015, Valletta, Malta, September 2-4, 2015 Proceedings, Part I, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 52–63.

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 Results in Materials.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Ancestors Of Humans And Chimps May Have Begun Diverging 13 Million Years Ago, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/ancestors-humans-and-chimps-may-have-begun-diverging-13-million-years-ago/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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, Energy R&D: DOE’s Allocation of Funds for Basic and Applied Research and Development, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Chaisson, An Investigation of Lower Wilcox Group Coals in Portions of Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, Lasalle, and Rapides Parishes, Louisiana, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, 2014.

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]

S. Kishkovsky, A Rock Telethon in Russia, Echoing the Mood of 9/11, New York Times (2004) A8.

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	Results in Materials
ISSN (print)	2590-048X
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