How to format your references using the Johnson Matthey Technology Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Johnson Matthey Technology Review (JMTR). 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. L. Kristoufek, Sci. Rep., 2013, 3, 2713

A journal article with 2 authors

1. J. H. Fowler and D. Schreiber, Science, 2008, 322, (5903), 912

A journal article with 3 authors

1. W. Lutz, R. Muttarak and E. Striessnig, Science, 2014, 346, (6213), 1061

A journal article with 8 or more authors

1. M. Mudelsee, M. Börngen, G. Tetzlaff and U. Grünewald, Nature, 2003, 425, (6954), 166

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. D. A. Cox, ‘Galois Theory’, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2004

An edited book

1. ‘Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State’, eds. T. Flew, P. Iosifidis and J. Steemers,Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016

A chapter in an edited book

1. E. Negre and C. Rosenthal-Sabroux, ‘Recommendations to Improve the Smartness of a City’, in ‘Smart City: How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space’, Progress in IS, eds. R. P. Dameri and C. Rosenthal-Sabroux, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014

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 Johnson Matthey Technology Review.

Blog post

1. J. Fang, ‘Human Pathogen Found in Gray Seal Pups’, IFLScience IFLScience, 2015 : https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/human-pathogen-found-gray-seal-pups/ (Accessed on 30 October 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, ‘College Work-Study Program’, No. 089627, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 20 February 1975

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. D. H. Edwards, ‘Why Do They Get High?: An Examination of Social Bond Theory and Substance Use in College’, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2017

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. S. Kishkovsky, ‘Filmmaker From Ukraine Sent to Prison by Russians’, New York Times, 26 August 2015, p. A6

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	Johnson Matthey Technology Review
ISSN (print)	2056-5135
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