How to format your references using the IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 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]

Ploehn H J 2015 Materials science: Composite for energy storage takes the heat Nature 523 536–7

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Neshev D and Kivshar Y 2014 Physics. Nonlinear optics pushed to the edge Science 344 483–4

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lamas-Linares A, Howell J C and Bouwmeester D 2001 Stimulated emission of polarization-entangled photons Nature 412 887–90

A journal article with 99 or more authors

[1]

Bond G, Kromer B, Beer J, Muscheler R, Evans M N, Showers W, Hoffmann S, Lotti-Bond R, Hajdas I and Bonani G 2001 Persistent solar influence on North Atlantic climate during the Holocene Science 294 2130–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Krishnan V 2006 Probability and Random Processes (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)

An edited book

[1]

Monastyrsky M I 2007 Topology in Molecular Biology (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer)

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nevile J W 2016 Policies to Minimise the Costs of Unemployment Post-Keynesian Essays from Down Under Volume III: Essays on Ethics, Social Justice and Economics: Theory and Policy in an Historical Context ACOSS paper ed G C Harcourt, P Kriesler and J W Nevile (London: Palgrave Macmillan UK) pp 45–66

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 IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering.

Blog post

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O`Callaghan J 2016 Dawn Spacecraft May Become First To Orbit Three Separate Objects In Space IFLScience

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

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Government Accountability Office 2000 Highway Funding: Problems With Highway Trust Fund Information Can Affect State Highway Funds (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

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Scheepers E M 2014 Psychotherapists’ use of outcome measures in psychotherapy practice: Differences related to academic background Doctoral dissertation (Minneapolis, MN: Capella University)

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]

Feeney K 2009 Croissants and Buttery Bliss New York Times NJ12

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	IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Abbreviation	IOP Conf. Ser. Mater. Sci. Eng.
ISSN (print)	1757-8981
ISSN (online)	1757-899X
Scope