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

Bartlett SD (2014) Quantum computing: powered by magic. Nature 510:345–347

A journal article with 2 authors

Kasahara T, Kato T (2003) Nutritional biochemistry: A new redox-cofactor vitamin for mammals. Nature 422:832

A journal article with 3 authors

Hori S, Nomura T, Sakaguchi S (2003) Control of regulatory T cell development by the transcription factor Foxp3. Science 299:1057–1061

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Irifune T, Kurio A, Sakamoto S, et al (2003) Materials: Ultrahard polycrystalline diamond from graphite. Nature 421:599–600

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Barron RF, Barron BR (2011) Design for Thermal Stresses. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Thompson CC (2013) Bariatric Endoscopy. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Balog K (2014) Semistructured Data Search. In: Ferro N (ed) Bridging Between Information Retrieval and Databases: PROMISE Winter School 2013, Bressanone, Italy, February 4-8, 2013. Revised Tutorial Lectures. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 74–96

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

Andrew E (2014) Why Do We Dream? In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-do-we-dream/. 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 (2009) Feasibility of Requiring Financial Assurances for the Recall or Destruction of Unsafe Consumer Products. 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

Koblick DC (2012) Parallel high-precision orbit propagation using the modified Picard-Chebyshev method. 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

(nyt) SK (2002) World Briefing | Europe: Moldova: Political Tension. New York Times A10

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

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