How to format your references using the Applied Mechanics Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Applied Mechanics Reviews. 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]

Glabe, C., 2006, “Biomedicine. Avoiding Collateral Damage in Alzheimer’s Disease Treatment,” Science, 314(5799), pp. 602–603.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Felton, L. M., and Anthony, C., 2005, “Biochemistry: Role of PQQ as a Mammalian Enzyme Cofactor?,” Nature, 433(7025), pp. E10; discussion E11-2.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Butov, L. V., Gossard, A. C., and Chemla, D. S., 2002, “Macroscopically Ordered State in an Exciton System,” Nature, 418(6899), pp. 751–754.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Borra, E. F., Seddiki, O., Angel, R., Eisenstein, D., Hickson, P., Seddon, K. R., and Worden, S. P., 2007, “Deposition of Metal Films on an Ionic Liquid as a Basis for a Lunar Telescope,” Nature, 447(7147), pp. 979–981.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hendrick, J., 2010, Law and Ethics in Children’s Nursing, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Palmer, M. A., Zedler, J. B., and Falk, D. A., eds., 2016, Foundations of Restoration Ecology, Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Czerpak, P., Drozda, P., and Sopyła, K., 2009, “Semantic Web System for Automatic Plan Scheduling,” New Challenges in Computational Collective Intelligence, N.T. Nguyen, R.P. Katarzyniak, and A. Janiak, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–50.

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 Applied Mechanics Reviews.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., 2015, “How Poo-Sniffing Detective Dogs Can Save Elusive, Rare Gorillas,” IFLScience.

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, 1971, Need To Improve Policies and Procedures for Approving Grants Under the Emergency School Assistance Program, B-164031, 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

[1]

Rodriguez Gamez, L. I., 2012, “New Perspectives on the Spatial Analysis of Urban Employment Distribution and Commuting Patterns: The Cases of Hermosillo and Ciudad Obregon, Mexico,” Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona.

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]

Hubbard, B., 2017, “Qaeda-Linked Militants Are Finding Elbow Room Among Syria’s Displaced,” New York Times, p. A6.

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	Applied Mechanics Reviews
Abbreviation	Appl. Mech. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0003-6900
ISSN (online)	1088-8535
Scope	Mechanical Engineering