Style Error: Journal of Materials Science

njfuxf

Hi,

I am using the Zotero citation style for "Journal of Materials Science"and discovered that formatting is incorrect.

When I insert the citation into the word, I find the second line of the citation have "text-indent of 0.5".

Also, the journal formats does not have "doi" in the end, while the Zotero formats have "doi" in the end.

Could you help me fixed it?

Thanks!

Xuefeng

adamsmith

Springer tells us they prefer DOIs to be included, so unless you hear differently from the journal, we'll keep those.

As for indenting, the 2nd line should be aligned with the author in the first line, just as it is in the journal's bibliographies. Are you saying that's not the case?

njfuxf

OK, thanks. But I find the papers which published in this journal didn't have DIOs in there citation, normally. Only for the cited paper which is accepted by the journal but not been published, it has DIOs.

For the 2nd line alignment, in my document, the second line aligned with the second author (not the first one).

I can't add picture in this conversation, otherwise, I will upload my issues.

Thanks!

njfuxf

Is this correct?

Thanks

adamsmith

upload a screenshot somewhere (dropbox, imgur) link to it from here.

njfuxf

This is the citation format used in one paper I found in the latest volume (April,2015) of Journal of Materials Science.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jlboi54j1dq35aa/citation in the journal.png?dl=0

In this paper, only the last citation the author used DOIs because that cited paper is accepted by the journal but not been published yet. Also, i checked other papers in the Journal of Materials Science, neither of the papers used DOIs.

The follow is the citation I created in my word by using Zotero:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/48ldvb5zcj8krht/citation in my word.png?dl=0

The alignment of second line is not correct.

Thanks,

Xuefeng

adamsmith

great, thanks. I see the indenting now. We'll fix that by the end of the weekend.

We'll keep the DOI, though -- I understand it's not in the printed journal article, but there's a good chance they still prefer it included, since it facilitates linking references, and, as I said, that's what we've been told by Springer is preferred.

adamsmith

OK, I have the indenting fixed.

Update your copy of the style by clicking "Update Now" in the General tab of the Zotero preferences.

Styles also update automatically within 24hs for Zotero 4.0+
In an existing document, you may have to switch to a different style and back for the changes to take effect once the style is updated.
Any further problems please let us know & thanks for reporting

DWL-SDCA

Re: DOIs & manuscript submission --

ScholarOne (and another manuscript management service the name of which I can't remember) use the DOI to facilitate linking cited material so that reviewers may easily go to the source. Some publishers use the DOI to facilitate linking to the reference source document in the electronic version of articles even if the actual DOI string isn't "printed" with the reference but is hidden within an html link with an icon or a short text phrase displayed.

noksagt

So I'm actually guest-editing a special issue of J Mat Sci at the moment & I can say with authority that we want DOIs. The guide for authors is also explicit about this.