How to format your references using the Materialia citation style

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

A. López-Urrutia, Allometry: How reliable is the biological time clock?, Nature 424 (2003) 269–70; discussion 270.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.F. Cryan, O.F. O’Leary, Neuroscience. A glutamate pathway to faster-acting antidepressants?, Science 329 (2010) 913–914.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Wang, D.W. Forsyth, B. Savage, Convective upwelling in the mantle beneath the Gulf of California, Nature 462 (2009) 499–501.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M.A. Foster, A.C. Turner, J.E. Sharping, B.S. Schmidt, M. Lipson, A.L. Gaeta, Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip, Nature 441 (2006) 960–963.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Reid, G. Fraser-King, W.D. Schwaderer, Data Lifecycles, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

A. Dovier, E. Pontelli, eds., A 25-Year Perspective on Logic Programming: Achievements of the Italian Association for Logic Programming, GULP, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

V. Chernoy, M. Shalom, S. Zaks, A Self-stabilizing Algorithm with Tight Bounds for Mutual Exclusion on a Ring, in: G. Taubenfeld (Ed.), Distributed Computing: 22nd International Symposium, DISC 2008, Arcachon, France, September 22-24, 2008. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 63–77.

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 Materialia.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Unbelievable Facts About Our Universe, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-oddities-unbelievable-facts-about-our-universe/ (accessed October 30, 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, 21st Century Challenges: Reexamining the Base of the Federal Government, 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]

N.L. Havill, Therapeutic landscapes for birth: A research synthesis, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2012.

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]

G. Vecsey, Rain Stopped, and Weirdness Began, New York Times (2011) B15.

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	Materialia
ISSN (print)	2589-1529
Scope