How to format your references using the Applied Materials Today citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Materials Today. 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 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

[1]

G. Russo, Raising Arizona, Nature 449 (2007) 372–373.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

L. Becks, A.F. Agrawal, Higher rates of sex evolve in spatially heterogeneous environments, Nature 468 (2010) 89–92.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Alonso, F. Sagués, A.S. Mikhailov, Taming Winfree turbulence of scroll waves in excitable media, Science 299 (2003) 1722–1725.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B. Seymour, J.P. O’Doherty, P. Dayan, M. Koltzenburg, A.K. Jones, R.J. Dolan, K.J. Friston, R.S. Frackowiak, Temporal difference models describe higher-order learning in humans, Nature 429 (2004) 664–667.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D.W. Edwards, Risk Management in Trading, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

L. Deng, Developing Chinese EFL Learners’ Generic Competence: A Genre-based & Process Genre Approach, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V.P. Poteat, J.R. Scheer, E.S.K. Chong, Sexual Orientation-Based Disparities in School and Juvenile Justice Discipline Practices: Attending to Contributing Factors and Evidence of Bias, in: R.J. Skiba, K. Mediratta, M.K. Rausch (Eds.), Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 61–78.

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 Applied Materials Today.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, A New Space Race Is On To Bring The Internet To The Whole World, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-space-race-bring-internet-whole-world/ (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, Space Operations: Listing of NASA Scientific Missions, 1980-2000, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

W.O. Crosby, ATI v. Colorado: How the Commerce Clause Provides Guidance at the Confluence of Energy, Environmental, and Constitutional Law, 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]

K. Crow, Executive In-Baskets Meant for a Park Picnic, New York Times (2002) 145.

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	Applied Materials Today
Abbreviation	Appl. Mater. Today
ISSN (print)	2352-9407
Scope	General Materials Science