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

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

[1]

I.E. Markó, Natural product synthesis. The art of total synthesis, Science 294 (2001) 1842–1843.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Webster, D. Hulse, Controlling avian flu at the source, Nature 435 (2005) 415–416.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.M. Hsiang, K.C. Meng, M.A. Cane, Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate, Nature 476 (2011) 438–441.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

H. Kumagai, T. Ohminato, M. Nakano, M. Ooi, A. Kubo, H. Inoue, J. Oikawa, Very-long-period seismic signals and caldera formation at Miyake Island, Japan, Science 293 (2001) 687–690.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.-L. Monino, S. Sedkaoui, Big Data, Open Data and Data Development, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

D.S.J.S. Jones, P.R. Pujadó, eds., Handbook of Petroleum Processing, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Aucher, B. Maubert, F. Schwarzentruber, Generalized DEL-Sequents, in: L.F. del Cerro, A. Herzig, J. Mengin (Eds.), Logics in Artificial Intelligence: 13th European Conference, JELIA 2012, Toulouse, France, September 26-28, 2012. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 54–66.

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 Solida Sinica.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, 25 Myths You Shouldn’t Believe About Earth, Space, And Physics, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/25-myths-you-shouldnt-believe-about-earth-space-and-physics/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal Research: Two Political Science Grants Awarded by the National Science Foundation, 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

[1]

J. Herron, The Use of Evidence Based Interventions in the Classroom for Students with Disabilities, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2017.

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

[1]

J. Hodgman, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times (2016) MM20.

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 Solida Sinica
ISSN (print)	0894-9166
Scope