How to format your references using the Acta Mechanica Sinica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Mechanica Sinica. 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

Gies, E.: Recycling: Lazarus batteries. Nature. 526, S100-1 (2015)

A journal article with 2 authors

Yeates, T.O., Clubb, R.T.: Biochemistry. How some pili pull. Science. 318, 1558–1559 (2007)

A journal article with 3 authors

Vafabakhsh, R., Levitz, J., Isacoff, E.Y.: Conformational dynamics of a class C G-protein-coupled receptor. Nature. 524, 497–501 (2015)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sallon, S., Solowey, E., Cohen, Y., Korchinsky, R., Egli, M., Woodhatch, I., Simchoni, O., Kislev, M.: Germination, genetics, and growth of an ancient date seed. Science. 320, 1464 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Montgomery, G.E., Schuch, H.C.: GIS Data Conversion Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2007)

An edited book

Stone, V., Ojikutu, B., Rawlings, M.K., Smith, K.Y. eds: HIV/AIDS in U.S. Communities of Color. Springer, New York, NY (2009)

A chapter in an edited book

Xia, Y., Fu, M.: The Descriptions of Flight Vehicle. In: Fu, M. (ed.) Compound Control Methodology for Flight Vehicles. pp. 55–64. 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 Sinica.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: How Neutrinos, Which Barely Exist, Just Ran Off With Another Nobel Prize, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/how-neutrinos-which-barely-exist-just-ran-another-nobel-prize/

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: Higher Education: Students Have Increased Borrowing and Working to Help Pay Higher Tuitions. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Vu, M.H.: Efficiency of pair-wise and multiple alignment algorithms in computational biology, (2010)

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

Feeney, K.: Their Daily Flatbread, (2009)

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 Sinica
Abbreviation	Acta Mech. Sin.
ISSN (print)	0567-7718
ISSN (online)	1614-3116
Scope	Computational Mechanics Mechanical Engineering