How to format your references using the Microporous and Mesoporous Materials citation style

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

S. Toby, The good and the bad, Nature 410 (2001) 523.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

E. Zelzer, B.R. Olsen, The genetic basis for skeletal diseases, Nature 423 (2003) 343–348.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Tanimura, J. Kanasaki, K. Tanimura, State-resolved ultrafast dynamics of impact ionization in InSb, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 6849.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C. Yang, L. Jia, S. Wang, C. Gao, D. Shi, Y. Hou, S. Gao, Single domain SmCo5@Co exchange-coupled magnets prepared from core/shell Sm[Co(CN)6]·4H2O@GO particles: a novel chemical approach, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

D. Greenspan, Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

G.B. Gudmundsdottir, K.B. Vasbø, eds., Methodological Challenges When Exploring Digital Learning Spaces in Education, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A. De, R. Bose, A. Kumar, S. Mozumdar, Pesticide Formulations, in: R. Bose, A. Kumar, S. Mozumdar (Eds.), Targeted Delivery of Pesticides Using Biodegradable Polymeric Nanoparticles, Springer India, New Delhi, 2014: pp. 15–23.

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 Microporous and Mesoporous Materials.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Why Did Ichthyosaurs Go Extinct?, 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, DOD Business Systems Modernization: Governance Mechanisms for Implementing Management Controls Need to Be Improved, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Johnson, Directed blogging with community college ESL students: Its effects on awareness of language acquisition processes, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, 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]

D. Gelles, M.J. de la MERCED, Staples to Sell for $6.9 Billion, and Its New Owner Has an Uphill Battle, New York Times (2017) B1.

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	Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
Abbreviation	Microporous Mesoporous Mater.
ISSN (print)	1387-1811
Scope	General Chemistry Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics