How to format your references using the Computational Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational 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	Download the output style file
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

Scharer K (2010) Geophysics. Changing views of the San Andreas Fault. Science 327:1089–1090

A journal article with 2 authors

Hegazy AN, Powrie F (2015) MICROBIOME. Microbiota RORgulates intestinal suppressor T cells. Science 349:929–930

A journal article with 3 authors

Zijlstra P, Chon JWM, Gu M (2009) Five-dimensional optical recording mediated by surface plasmons in gold nanorods. Nature 459:410–413

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Morioka S, Perry JSA, Raymond MH, et al (2018) Efferocytosis induces a novel SLC program to promote glucose uptake and lactate release. Nature

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Onstott S (2017) AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT® Essentials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana

An edited book

Dua S, Gangopadhyay A, Thulasiraman P, et al (2012) Information Systems, Technology and Management: 6th International Conference, ICISTM 2012, Grenoble, France, March 28-30, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Bitušík P, Kubovčík V, Štefková E, et al (2009) Subfossil diatoms and chironomids along an altitudinal gradient in the High Tatra Mountain lakes: a multi-proxy record of past environmental trends. In: Buczkó K, Korponai J, Padisák J, Starratt SW (eds) Palaeolimnological Proxies as Tools of Environmental Reconstruction in Fresh Water. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 65–85

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 Computational Mechanics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) The Flower Breeders Who Sold X-Ray Lilies And Atomic Marigolds. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/flower-breeders-who-sold-x-ray-lilies-and-atomic-marigolds/. 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 (2017) Surface Transportation: A Comprehensive Plan Could Facilitate Implementation of a National Performance Management Approach. 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

Crowell ML (2016) A Case Study into the Perception of World Language Study of All Stakeholders in a Suburban Midwest School District. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Bray C, Kanter J (2017) E.U. Proposal May Shrink London’s Financial Footprint. New York Times B2

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	Computational Mechanics
Abbreviation	Comput. Mech.
ISSN (print)	0178-7675
ISSN (online)	1432-0924
Scope	Computational Theory and Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Ocean Engineering Applied Mathematics Computational Mathematics