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]

M. Baker, RNA interference: MicroRNAs as biomarkers, Nature. 464 (2010) 1227.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Kim, R.J. DeBerardinis, Cancer. Silencing a metabolic oncogene, Science. 340 (2013) 558–559.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.M. Gancarz-Kausch, D.N. Adank, D.M. Dietz, Prolonged withdrawal following cocaine self-administration increases resistance to punishment in a cocaine binge, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6876.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K.F. Smith, M. Behrens, L.M. Schloegel, N. Marano, S. Burgiel, P. Daszak, Ecology. Reducing the risks of the wildlife trade, Science. 324 (2009) 594–595.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Pandya, Mobile and Personal Communication Services and Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

G. Cimino, M. Gavagnin, eds., Molluscs: From Chemo-ecological Study to Biotechnological Application, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

I. Dixon, G. Whittaker, Streaming Media Around the Home, in: G. Whittaker (Ed.), Entertainment Apps on the Go with Windows 10: Music, Movies, and TV for PCs, Tablets, and Phones, Apress, Berkeley, CA, 2015: pp. 101–118.

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]

D. Andrew, 60% Of Primate Species Now Threatened With Extinction, Says Major New Study, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/60-of-primate-species-now-threatened-with-extinction-says-major-new-study/ (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, FBI Management of Its Automated Information Systems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

L.M. Locicero, The Effects of Vertical Casting Position in Reinforced Concrete, 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]

D.E. Slotnik, Kenny Sears, 83, Sharpshooting Forward for the Knicks, New York Times. (2017) A28.

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
Scope

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