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

McDowell, J.M.: Plant science. Beleaguered immunity. Science. 334, 1354–1355 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedman, A., Perrimon, N.: A functional RNAi screen for regulators of receptor tyrosine kinase and ERK signalling. Nature. 444, 230–234 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Sadqi, M., Fushman, D., Muñoz, V.: Atom-by-atom analysis of global downhill protein folding. Nature. 442, 317–321 (2006)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Keegan, B.R., Feldman, J.L., Begemann, G., Ingham, P.W., Yelon, D.: Retinoic acid signaling restricts the cardiac progenitor pool. Science. 307, 247–249 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bragg, S.M.: Cost Reduction Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2010)

An edited book

Bruckstein, A.M., Haar Romeny, B.M.T., Bronstein, A.M., Bronstein, M.M. eds: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision: Third International Conference, SSVM 2011, Ein-Gedi, Israel, May 29 – June 2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Koschmider, A., Kriglstein, S., Ullrich, M.: Investigations on User Preferences of the Alignment of Process Activities, Objects and Roles. In: Meersman, R., Panetto, H., Dillon, T., Eder, J., Bellahsene, Z., Ritter, N., Leenheer, P.D., and Dou, D. (eds.) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2013 Conferences: Confederated International Conferences: CoopIS, DOA-Trusted Cloud, and ODBASE 2013, Graz, Austria, September 9-13, 2013. Proceedings. pp. 57–74. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

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

Luntz, S.: Gene Found That Harms Males, Not Females, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gene-found-that-harms-males-not-females/

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: Performance Appraisal Information From Selected Federal Agencies. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1985)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Winhusen, E.R.: Precambrian Seawater Temperature Analysis Using Oxygen Isotopes from Hamersley Carbonates, Western Australia, (2001)

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

Walsh, M.W.: A Tangle of Rulings for Pension Cuts, (2015)

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