How to format your references using the Acta Mechanica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Mechanica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Carlson, E.W.: Condensed-matter physics: Charge topology in superconductors. Nature. 525, 329–330 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Nimmo, F., Pappalardo, R.T.: Diapir-induced reorientation of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Nature. 441, 614–616 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Royle, N.J., Russell, A.F., Wilson, A.J.: The evolution of flexible parenting. Science. 345, 776–781 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gao, Z.-D., Qu, Y., Li, T., Shrestha, N.K., Song, Y.-Y.: Development of amperometric glucose biosensor based on Prussian Blue functionlized TiO2 nanotube arrays. Sci. Rep. 4, 6891 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Upreti, S.R.: Process Modeling and Simulation for Chemical Engineers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2017)

An edited book

Dudin, A., Klimenok, V., Tsarenkov, G., Dudin, S. eds: Modern Probabilistic Methods for Analysis of Telecommunication Networks: Belarusian Winter Workshops in Queueing Theory, BWWQT 2013, Minsk, Belarus, January 28-31, 2013. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Gonçalves, R., Alferes, J.J.: An Embedding of Input-Output Logic in Deontic Logic Programs. In: Ågotnes, T., Broersen, J., and Elgesem, D. (eds.) Deontic Logic in Computer Science: 11th International Conference, DEON 2012, Bergen, Norway, July 16-18, 2012. Proceedings. pp. 61–75. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

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 Acta Mechanica.

Blog post

Carpineti, A.: Humans Could Be In Orbit Around Mars As Soon As 2028, https://www.iflscience.com/space/humans-could-be-orbit-around-mars-soon-2028/

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

Government Accountability Office: DOD Overseas Schools: Additional Assurances of Educational Quality Needed. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1990)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Solano, E.A.: Hindemith’s Sonata for Viola, ope 11, no.4 A compositional and historical perspective, (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

Grynbaum, M.M., Ember, S.: Who Will Inherit the Throne at Vanity Fair?, (2017)

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	Acta Mechanica
Abbreviation	Acta Mech.
ISSN (print)	0001-5970
ISSN (online)	1619-6937
Scope	Computational Mechanics Mechanical Engineering