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]

X. Bosch, Spain in quandary over French synchrotron, Nature 405 (2000) 604.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G.P. Koocher, P. Keith-Spiegel, Peers nip misconduct in the bud, Nature 466 (2010) 438–440.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

B. Pawlowski, R.I. Dunbar, A. Lipowicz, Tall men have more reproductive success, Nature 403 (2000) 156.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D.E. Smalley, E. Nygaard, K. Squire, J. Van Wagoner, J. Rasmussen, S. Gneiting, K. Qaderi, J. Goodsell, W. Rogers, M. Lindsey, K. Costner, A. Monk, M. Pearson, B. Haymore, J. Peatross, A photophoretic-trap volumetric display, Nature 553 (2018) 486–490.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.W. Leis, Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB for Students and Researchers, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

T. Yakhno, E.J. Neuhold, eds., Advances in Information Systems: 4th International Conference, ADVIS 2006, Izmir, Turkey, October 18-20,2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Baud, Digitisation and Participation in Urban Governance: The Contribution of ICT-Based Spatial Knowledge Management in Indian Cities, in: G.M. Gómez, P. Knorringa (Eds.), Local Governance, Economic Development and Institutions, Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 86–97.

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]

B. Taub, This Is What Americans Have Been Dying Of Over The Past 35 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, Amendment No. 1--Documentation Requirements When Assessing Control Risk at Maximum for Controls Significantly Dependent Upon Computerized Information Systems (Superseded by GAO-03-673G) A-GAGAS-1, May 1999, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A. Korobenko, Advanced Fluid–Structure Interaction Techniques in Application to Horizontal and Vertical Axis Wind Turbines, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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]

L. Lee, Connect the Blocks, New York Times (2013) D3.

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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