How to format your references using the Composites: Mechanics, Computations, Applications: An International Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Composites: Mechanics, Computations, Applications: An International Journal (CMCA). 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

Kleiner, R., Applied Physics. Filling the Terahertz Gap, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 318, no. 5854, pp. 1254–55, November 23, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Leopold, P. and Perrimon, N., Drosophila and the Genetics of the Internal Milieu, Nature, vol. 450, no. 7167, pp. 186–88, November 8, 2007.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kogan, A., Amasha, S. and Kastner, M. A., Photon-Induced Kondo Satellites in a Single-Electron Transistor, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 304, no. 5675, pp. 1293–95, May 28, 2004.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Sharma, J., Chhabra, R., Cheng, A., Brownell, J., Liu, Y. and Yan, H., Control of Self-Assembly of DNA Tubules through Integration of Gold Nanoparticles, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 323, no. 5910, pp. 112–16, January 2, 2009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bradley, D., Managing Minor Musculoskeletal Injuries and Conditions, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2015.

An edited book

Rettinger, J., Electrophysiology: Basics, Modern Approaches and Applications, Cham: Springer International Publishing, XIII, 162 p. 158 illus. in color, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Assali, A. A., Lenne, D. and Debray, B., Heterogeneity in Ontological CBR Systems, in Successful Case-Based Reasoning Applications - I, S. Montani and L. C. Jain, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 97–116, 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 Composites: Mechanics, Computations, Applications: An International Journal.

Blog post

Andrews, R., Fossilized Footprints Confirm Homo Erectus Walked Like Modern Humans 1.9 Million Years Ago, IFLScience, July 13, 2016.

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, Information Technology Cost Estimation: Agencies Need to Address Significant Weaknesses in Policies and Practices, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, GAO-12-629, Jul. 11, 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

San Miguel, A. M., Lived Experiences and Perceptions on Mentoring among Latina Scientists and Engineers, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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

Saslow, L., Babylon Supervisor Wants Town to Go Green, New York Times, November 26, 2006.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kleiner, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kleiner, 2007; Leopold et al., 2007).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Leopold et al., 2007)
Three or more authors: (Sharma et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Composites: Mechanics, Computations, Applications: An International Journal
ISSN (print)	2152-2057
ISSN (online)	2152-2073
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