How to format your references using the Sustainable Materials and Technologies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Sustainable Materials and Technologies. 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]

P. Calvert, Materials science. Printing cells, Science. 318 (2007) 208–209.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C. Kemp, T. Regier, Kinship categories across languages reflect general communicative principles, Science. 336 (2012) 1049–1054.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R. Vafabakhsh, J. Levitz, E.Y. Isacoff, Conformational dynamics of a class C G-protein-coupled receptor, Nature. 524 (2015) 497–501.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Wang, A.M.D. Lee, H. Lui, D.I. McLean, H. Zeng, A method for accurate in vivo micro-Raman spectroscopic measurements under guidance of advanced microscopy imaging, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1890.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.A. Morris, Food and Package Engineering, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

C. Blundo, S. Cimato, eds., Security in Communication Networks: 4th International Conference, SCN 2004, Amalfi, Italy, September 8-10, 2004, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P.A. Foelsch, S. Schlüter-Müller, A.E. Odom, H.T. Arena, A.H. Borzutzky, K. Schmeck, Diagnosis and Treatment Indications, in: S. Schlüter-Müller, A.E. Odom, H.T. Arena, A. Borzutzky H., K. Schmeck (Eds.), Adolescent Identity Treatment: An Integrative Approach for Personality Pathology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 39–57.

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 Sustainable Materials and Technologies.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Boy Born Without Eyes, Nose, or Jaw Undergoes Life-Changing Surgery, IFLScience. (2015).

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, Year 2000 Computing Challenge: The District of Columbia Cannot Reliably Track Y2K Costs, 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]

K. Shimizu, The Procurement System of the Japanese Space Agency: Present Challenges, Future Promise, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

G. Vecsey, Echoes of Glory Fade at a Fork in the Road, New York Times. (2009) B15.

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	Sustainable Materials and Technologies
Abbreviation	Sustain. Mater. Technol.
ISSN (print)	2214-9937
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