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

Klarreich, E.: Wellcome Trust sets out fresh misconduct standards. Nature. 412, 667 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Etiope, G., Ciccioli, P.: Earth’s degassing: a missing ethane and propane source. Science. 323, 478 (2009)

A journal article with 3 authors

Soroceanu, L., Akhavan, A., Cobbs, C.S.: Platelet-derived growth factor-alpha receptor activation is required for human cytomegalovirus infection. Nature. 455, 391–395 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Z., Meng, G., Wu, Q., Hu, Z., Chen, J., Xu, Q., Zhou, F.: Enhanced cold field emission of large-area arrays of vertically aligned ZnO-nanotapers via sharpening: experiment and theory. Sci. Rep. 4, 4676 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Basener, W.F.: Topology and Its Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2006)

An edited book

Cheng, C.-M., Chung, K.-M., Persiano, G., Yang, B.-Y. eds: Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2016: 19th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Taipei, Taiwan, March 6-9, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Cruse, H., Dürr, V., Schilling, M., Schmitz, J.: A Bottom-Up Approach for Cognitive Control. In: Arena, P. and Patanè, L. (eds.) Spatial Temporal Patterns for Action-Oriented Perception in Roving Robots. pp. 179–218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009)

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

Fang, J.: New Stars Born at Milky Way’s Edge, https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-stars-born-milky-ways-edge/

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: Federal Program To Strengthen Developing Institutions of Higher Education Lacks Direction. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1979)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wester, A.M.: Readers’ trust, socio-demographic, and acuity influences in citizen journalism credibility for disrupted online newspapers, (2013)

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

Koblin, J.: HBO’s ‘Veep’ to End In 2018 After 7 Seasons, (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 Sinica
Abbreviation	Acta Mech. Sin.
ISSN (print)	0567-7718
ISSN (online)	1614-3116
Scope	Computational Mechanics Mechanical Engineering

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