How to format your references using the Bulletin of Materials Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of Materials Science. 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

Hawkins, Joel M. 2015. Organic chemistry: Streamlining drug synthesis. Nature 520: 302–303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, Michael W., and Elizabeth S. Williams. 2003. Prion disease: horizontal prion transmission in mule deer. Nature 425: 35–36.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, S-K, T. C. Badea, and S. Hattar. 2011. Photoentrainment and pupillary light reflex are mediated by distinct populations of ipRGCs. Nature 476: 92–95.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Stohr, J., M. G. Samant, J. Luning, A. C. Callegari, P. Chaudhari, J. P. Doyle, J. A. Lacey, S. A. Lien, S. Purushothaman, and J. L. Speidell. 2001. Liquid crystal alignment on carbonaceous surfaces with orientational order. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292: 2299–2302.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauer, Eric, Randee Adams, and Daniel Eustace. 2011. Beyond Redundancy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Hertzberg, Joachim, Michael Beetz, and Roman Englert, ed. 2007. KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 30th Annual German Conference on AI, KI 2007, Osnabrück, Germany, September 10-13, 2007. Proceedings. Vol. 4667. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Hong, Ling, and Jian-Xue Xu. 2012. Crises in Chaotic Systems. In Global Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics, ed. Jian-Qiao Sun and Albert C. J. Luo, 75–105. New York, NY: 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 Bulletin of Materials Science.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. New Croc-like Carnivore Preceded Dinosaurs. IFLScience. IFLScience. January 21.

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. 1989. ADP Budget: SSA’s Fiscal Year 1990 Information Technology Systems Budget Request. IMTEC-89-60. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Day, Christy. 2012. Medication-assisted treatment: Education for those who assist in the treatment of substance use disorders curriculum development. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

Gordon, Michael R., and Marlise Simons. 2017. War Crimes Office May Be Shuttered As Tillerson Reorganizes State Dept. New York Times, July 19.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hawkins 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Miller and Williams 2003; Hawkins 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Miller and Williams 2003)
Three or more authors: (Stohr et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of Materials Science
ISSN (print)	0250-4707
ISSN (online)	0973-7669
Scope