How to format your references using the Annals of Solid and Structural Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Solid and Structural Mechanics. 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

Check E (2003) National Academies launch grants for interdisciplinary work. Nature 422:791

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsumoto Y, Maller JL (2002) Calcium, calmodulin, and CaMKII requirement for initiation of centrosome duplication in Xenopus egg extracts. Science 295:499–502

A journal article with 3 authors

Mueller K, Hough SE, Bilham R (2004) Analysing the 1811-1812 New Madrid earthquakes with recent instrumentally recorded aftershocks. Nature 429:284–288

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gaensler BM, Haverkorn M, Staveley-Smith L, et al (2005) The magnetic field of the Large Magellanic Cloud revealed through Faraday rotation. Science 307:1610–1612

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arifin SMN, Madey GR, Collins FH (2016) Spatial Agent-Based Simulation Modeling in Public Health. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Harrison-Woolrych M (2015) Medicines For Women. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Potiron K, El Fallah Seghrouchni A, Taillibert P (2013) Refinement of the Fault Classification for MAS. In: El Fallah Seghrouchni A, Taillibert P (eds) From Fault Classification to Fault Tolerance for Multi-Agent Systems. Springer, London, pp 21–35

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 Annals of Solid and Structural Mechanics.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Cassini Captures Gorgeous Shots Of Two Moons Peeking Through Saturn’s Rings. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/cassini-captures-gorgeous-shots-of-two-moons-peeking-through-saturns-rings/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1980) Proposed Revisions to Procurement Regulations Covering ADP Equipment and Services. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Deutsch D (2010) Increased mental health services for the homeless. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kishkovsky S (2006) Hermitage Is Reeling From Loss Of Artworks. New York Times E1

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	Annals of Solid and Structural Mechanics
Abbreviation	Ann. Solid Struct. Mech.
ISSN (print)	1867-6936
ISSN (online)	1867-6944
Scope	Aerospace Engineering Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials