How to format your references using the Annual Review of Materials Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Materials Research. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Fenchel T. 2002. Microbial behavior in a heterogeneous world. Science. 296(5570):1068–71

A journal article with 2 authors

Cosson S, Lutolf MP. 2014. Hydrogel microfluidics for the patterning of pluripotent stem cells. Sci. Rep. 4:4462

A journal article with 3 authors

Pan X, Liu F, Zhang M. 2012. Comment on “Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness.” Science. 335(6075):1441; author reply 1441

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wolf IML, Fan Z, Rauh M, Seufert S, Hore N, et al. 2014. Histone deacetylases inhibition by SAHA/Vorinostat normalizes the glioma microenvironment via xCT equilibration. Sci. Rep. 4:6226

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mazzi B. 2013. Treasury Finance and Development Banking. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bansal RK, ed. 2009. Phosphorous Heterocycles I, Vol. 20. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. X, 314 p. 77 illus., 1 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang L, Neuhäußer MR. 2010. Model Checking Interactive Markov Chains. In Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 16th International Conference, TACAS 2010, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2010, Paphos, Cyprus, March 20-28, 2010. Proceedings, ed J Esparza, R Majumdar, pp. 53–68. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Materials Research.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2016. How To Know When Holiday Drinking Is Hurting Your Brain. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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

Government Accountability Office. 1994. Higher Education: Information on Minority-Targeted Scholarships. HEHS-94-77, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mylonas A. 2014. “Women are the pillars of the family”: Athenian women’s survival strategies during economic crisis. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Billard M. 2010. Scouting Report. New York Times, Aug. 19, p. E5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Materials Research
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Mater. Res.
ISSN (print)	1531-7331
ISSN (online)	1545-4118
Scope	General Materials Science