MRS Energy & Sustainability Format Instructions
Style | Mathematics | References | Tables| Acknowledgments| Rights and permissions | Proofs of articles
Style
Authors are expected to follow the conventional writing, notation, and illustration style prescribed in The ACS Style Guide, 3rd Edition, 2006. Authors should also study the form and style of printed material in this journal. SI units should be used. Authors should use an identical format for their names in all publications to facilitate use of citations and author indexes. Use of ORCID author identification is encouraged.
Mathematics
Special care should be given to make equations and formulas clear to the typesetter.
- Variables should appear in italic text.
- Vectors should appear in bold text.
- Capital and lower-case letters should be distinguished clearly where there could be confusion.
- Fractional exponents should be used to avoid root signs.
- Extra symbols should be introduced to avoid complicated exponents or where it is necessary to repeat a complicated expression a number of times.
- The slash (/) should be used wherever possible for fractions.
- Mathematical derivations that are easily found elsewhere in the literature should not be used.
References
All journal article references must include the title of the article and all authors. The phrases et al. and ibid. should not be used in any reference. Instead, all authors of the reference should be listed. All journal article references must include the initials and last name of all authors: the title of the journal in italic, the volume number in bold, page number and (year).
Authors are responsible for providing English-language translations of reference citations originally published in other languages.
All references to website sources must specify the date that information was accessed in writing the submitted paper:
Author: Title (date). Available at: website (accessed day/month/year). The reference can begin immediately with the title if there is no discernible author.
Example:
Global Wind Energy Council: Annual Market Update
References should be double-spaced, numbered consecutively, placed on a separate page, and arranged as follows:
A. Gouldstone, Y-L. Shen, S. Suresh, and C.V. Thompson: Evolution of stress in passivated and unpassivated metal interconnects. J. Mater. Res. 13, 1956 (1998).
H. Lamb: Hydrodynamics, 6th ed. (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, England, 1940), pp. 573, 645.
T.R. Jervis, J-P. Hirvonen, M. Nastasi, and M.R. Cohen: Laser mixing of titanium on silicon carbide, in Beam-Solid Interactions: Physical Phenomena, edited by J.A. Knapp, P. Borgesen, and R.A. Zuhr (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 157, Pittsburgh, PA, 1990), p. 395.
H. Wang, A. Sharma, and A. Kvit: Mechanical properties of nanocrystalline and epitaxial TiN films on (100) silicon. J. Mater. Res. 16, 9 (2001).
Tables
All but the simplest tabular material should be organized into separate tables. Tables should be numbered with arabic numerals on separate pages at the end of the manuscript. Captions should be sufficiently descriptive to make the data in the table intelligible without referring to the text. Complicated column headings in the body of the table should be avoided. If necessary, symbols that are explained in the caption should be used.
Acknowledgments
An Acknowledgment(s) section is optional. Please note spelling above. Place statements of funding support and disclaimers in the Acknowledgments section, not in footnotes.
Rights and Permissions
All requests to publish material published in MRS Energy & Sustainability should be directed to Cambridge University Press. Please visit Cambridge’s Rights and Permissions page.
Proof Instructions for Articles
Cambridge University Press will contact and send PDF proofs for correction to the contact author unless instructed otherwise.
If authors fail to return their corrected page proofs or to communicate a requirement for an extended review period, the paper will be published without corrections.
Authors shall follow the instructions for the return proofs provided at the time of their dispatch.
Online publication is considered a definitive act and shall be the version of record. Any subsequent request for alterations, additions, or correction shall be considered on a case by case basis for significant errors at the discretion of the editor. Records shall be updated by the publication of a corrigendum, erratum or addendum, as appropriate.
Note: Authors should note that minor corrections of their published material, not affecting the contribution in any significant way or impairing the reader’s understanding of the article (spelling or grammatical errors, for instance), will not be published.