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]

Zhang, X., 2014, “Plant Science. Delayed Gratification--Waiting to Terminate Stem Cell Identity,” Science, 343(6170), pp. 498–499.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Rowan, L., and Coontz, R., 2002, “Great Balls of Fire. Star Formation: A Web Supplement,” Science, 295(5552), p. 63.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Viswanathan, S. R., Daley, G. Q., and Gregory, R. I., 2008, “Selective Blockade of MicroRNA Processing by Lin28,” Science, 320(5872), pp. 97–100.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Vacic, V., McCarthy, S., Malhotra, D., Murray, F., Chou, H.-H., Peoples, A., Makarov, V., Yoon, S., Bhandari, A., Corominas, R., Iakoucheva, L. M., Krastoshevsky, O., Krause, V., Larach-Walters, V., Welsh, D. K., Craig, D., Kelsoe, J. R., Gershon, E. S., Leal, S. M., Dell Aquila, M., Morris, D. W., Gill, M., Corvin, A., Insel, P. A., McClellan, J., King, M.-C., Karayiorgou, M., Levy, D. L., DeLisi, L. E., and Sebat, J., 2011, “Duplications of the Neuropeptide Receptor Gene VIPR2 Confer Significant Risk for Schizophrenia,” Nature, 471(7339), pp. 499–503.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Marsh, N., 2014, Forensic Photography, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Krempels, K.-H., and Stocker, A., eds., 2014, Web Information Systems and Technologies: 9th International Conference, WEBIST 2013, Aachen, Germany, May 8-10, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rosen, E. M., Ma, Y., and Fan, S., 2009, “BRCA1 Cross-Talk with Hormone Receptors,” Hormone Receptors in Breast Cancer, S.A.W. Fuqua, ed., Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 1–20.

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]

Andrews, R., 2016, “90 Megacity Mayors Pledge To Fight Dangerous Climate Change,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/90-megacity-mayors-pledge-fight-damgerous-climate-change/. [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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 2000, Observations on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Report and Fiscal Year 2001 Performance Plan, NSIAD-00-192R, 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]

Schewe, E. M., 2016, “Re-Establishing Connections: Listening to Women Psychology Students Talk about Recovery,” Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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]

Barron, J., 2017, “End of an Era Looms as Waldorf Astoria Prepares to Close for Renovations,” New York Times, p. A20.

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