How to format your references using the Archive of Applied Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archive of Applied 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

Cuk, M.: Excitation of lunar eccentricity by planetary resonances. Science. 318, 244 (2007)

A journal article with 2 authors

Schrag, D.P., Alley, R.B.: Physics. Ancient lessons for our future climate. Science. 306, 821–822 (2004)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, L., Zeng, X., Wang, X.: Programmable hydrogenation of graphene for novel nanocages. Sci. Rep. 3, 3162 (2013)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, W., Zhang, W., Fang, X., Huang, Y., Liu, Q., Gu, J., Zhang, D.: Demonstration of higher colour response with ambient refractive index in Papilio blumei as compared to Morpho rhetenor. Sci. Rep. 4, 5591 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stuart, B.: Forensic Analytical Techniques: Stuart/Forensic Analytical Techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2012)

An edited book

Zohdi, T.I., Wriggers, P. eds: An Introduction to Computational Micromechanics: Corrected Second Printing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Roland, C.M., Casalini, R.: Reorientational Relaxation Time at the Onset of Intermolecular Cooperativity. In: Rzoska, S., Drozd-Rzoska, A., and Mazur, V. (eds.) Metastable Systems under Pressure. pp. 53–61. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2010)

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 Archive of Applied Mechanics.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Ants Self-Medicate To Ward Off Fungal Infections

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: Problems in Administering Programs To Improve Law Enforcement Education. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1975)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nevin, M.J.: Addressing the Learning Outcomes and Assessment Methods Associated with Participation in Student Government Associations: A Qualitative Study of California Community Colleges, (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

Hollander, S.: Fordham’s Big 3 Make Trip North Worthwhile, (2002)

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	Archive of Applied Mechanics
Abbreviation	Arch. Appl. Mech.
ISSN (print)	0939-1533
ISSN (online)	1432-0681
Scope	Mechanical Engineering

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