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]

R.A. Herring, Physics. A new twist for electron beams, Science. 331 (2011) 155–156.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Keinan, A.G. Clark, Recent explosive human population growth has resulted in an excess of rare genetic variants, Science. 336 (2012) 740–743.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

D. Coumou, J. Lehmann, J. Beckmann, Climate change. The weakening summer circulation in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, Science. 348 (2015) 324–327.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.C. Jones, M.R. Myerscough, S. Graham, B.P. Oldroyd, Honey bee nest thermoregulation: diversity promotes stability, Science. 305 (2004) 402–404.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

H. Kerzner, Project Management Case Studies, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

M.J. Sirgy, R. Phillips, D.R. Rahtz, eds., Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases IV, 1st ed., Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J. Forth, H. Petit, Z. Salibekyan, Tenure, Skill Development, and Pay: The Role of Internal Labour Markets, in: T. Amossé, A. Bryson, J. Forth, H. Petit (Eds.), Comparative Workplace Employment Relations: An Analysis of Practice in Britain and France, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 105–140.

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]

D. Andrew, Electroconvulsive Therapy: A History Of Controversy, But Also Of Help, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/electroconvulsive-therapy-a-history-of-controversy-but-also-of-help/ (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, Balancing Flexibility and Accountability: Grant Program Design in Education and Other Areas, 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]

C. Torres, Grassroots in Santa Ana: Identity and conceptualizing community, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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. Schwartz, At Exxon, Nominee Steered Company’s ‘Evolution’ on Climate, New York Times. (2016) A16.

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
Scope