How to format your references using the Journal of Materiomics citation style

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

Gewin V. Policy-makers in many areas need input from scientists to help them make sound decisions. Nature 2003;422:452–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Abraham RT, Tibbetts RS. Cell biology. Guiding ATM to broken DNA. Science 2005;308:510–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Webber BL, Le Maitre DC, Kriticos DJ. Comment on “Climatic niche shifts are rare among terrestrial plant invaders.” Science 2012;338:193; author reply 193.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Nikolaides MG, Bausch AR, Hsu MF, Dinsmore AD, Brenner MP, Gay C, et al. Electric-field-induced capillary attraction between like-charged particles at liquid interfaces. Nature 2002;420:299–301.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hochberg Z. Evo-Devo of Child Growth. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Uden L, Sinclair J, Tao Y-H, Liberona D, editors. Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. MOOC and Big Data: Third International Workshop, LTEC 2014, Santiago, Chile, September 2-5, 2014. Proceedings. vol. 446. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Morales JM, Conejo AJ, Madsen H, Pinson P, Zugno M. Managing Uncertainty with Flexibility. In: Conejo AJ, Madsen H, Pinson P, Zugno M, editors. Integrating Renewables in Electricity Markets: Operational Problems, Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014, p. 137–71.

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 Materiomics.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Type 2 Diabetes Might Be Caused By Your Bacteria. 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. Student Loans: Default Rates Need To Be Computed More Appropriately. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Liu H. Three Papers on the Sociology of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 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]

Whiteside K. With City Passing By in a Blur, a Star Adds Yet Another Title. New York Times 2016:F2.

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 Materiomics
ISSN (print)	2352-8478
Scope