How to format your references using the Journal of Crystal Growth citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Crystal Growth. 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

[1]

J.C. Egues, Physics. Fingerprinting spin qubits, Science 309 (2005) 565–567.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

X.H. Deng, H. Matsumoto, Rapid magnetic reconnection in the Earth’s magnetosphere mediated by whistler waves, Nature 410 (2001) 557–560.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

C.R. Faehnle, J. Walleshauser, L. Joshua-Tor, Mechanism of Dis3l2 substrate recognition in the Lin28-let-7 pathway, Nature 514 (2014) 252–256.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

L.I. Johansson, R. Armiento, J. Avila, C. Xia, S. Lorcy, I.A. Abrikosov, M.C. Asensio, C. Virojanadara, Multiple π-bands and Bernal stacking of multilayer graphene on C-face SiC, revealed by nano-Angle Resolved Photoemission, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4157.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S. Geisser, Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference: Geisser/Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

A. Tatnall, A. Visscher, A. Finegan, C. O’Mahony, eds., Evolution of Information Technology in Educational Management, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

K. Ito, T. Kochiyama, Does Comprehensive Income Influence Dividends? Empirical Evidence from Japan, in: K. Ito, M. Nakano (Eds.), International Perspectives on Accounting and Corporate Behavior, Springer Japan, Tokyo, 2014: pp. 107–125.

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 Journal of Crystal Growth.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Dolphin Attempts To Revive Its Dead Calf, IFLScience (2015).

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, Commercial Aviation: Structural Costs Continue to Challenge Legacy Airlines’ Financial Performance, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

A.J. Kalafut, Proactive cyberfraud detection through infrastructure analysis, Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 2010.

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]

Photographs by GEORGE ETHEREDGE for THE NEW YORK TIMES, The Color Red, New York Times (2017) RE12.

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	Journal of Crystal Growth
Abbreviation	J. Cryst. Growth
ISSN (print)	0022-0248
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics