How to format your references using the Materials Technology citation style

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

Marx V. Cell communication: stop the microbial chatter. Nature. 2014;511(7510):493–497.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kaminski D, Geisler C. Survival analysis of faculty retention in science and engineering by gender. Science. 2012;335(6070):864–866.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Powner MW, Gerland B, Sutherland JD. Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions. Nature. 2009;459(7244):239–242.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Lincoln GA, Clarke IJ, Hut RA, et al. Characterizing a mammalian circannual pacemaker. Science. 2006;314(5807):1941–1944.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Minoli D. Mobile Video with Mobile IPv6. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Hodler J, Zollikofer CL, Schulthess GK von, editors. Musculoskeletal Diseases: Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Techniques. Milano: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

van Zonneveld M, Dawson I, Thomas E, et al. Application of Molecular Markers in Spatial Analysis to Optimize In Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources. In: Tuberosa R, Graner A, Frison E, editors. Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources: Volume 1 Managing, sequencing and mining genetic resources. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 67–91.

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 Materials Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Why Are Some People Selfish? IFLScience. 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. Indian Affairs: Bureau of Indian Education Needs to Improve Oversight of School Spending. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014. Report No.: GAO-15-121. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Schneider SZ. Mercury sources and cycling processes in the Cape Fear River estuary, North Carolina [Doctoral dissertation]. [Chapel Hill, NC]: University of North Carolina; 2009.

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]

Greenhouse L. Justices Curb Postal Service’s Immunity From Lawsuits. New York Times. 2006 Feb 23;A21.

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	Materials Technology
Abbreviation	Mater. Technol. (UK)
ISSN (print)	1066-7857
ISSN (online)	1753-5557
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics