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

Horton JC (2000) Boundary disputes. Nature 406:565

A journal article with 2 authors

van den Elsen JMH, Isenman DE (2011) A crystal structure of the complex between human complement receptor 2 and its ligand C3d. Science 332:608–611

A journal article with 3 authors

Kang M-K, Kim SJ, Kim HJ (2014) Fabrication of high performance thin-film transistors via pressure-induced nucleation. Sci Rep 4:6858

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Coleman FC, Figueira WF, Ueland JS, Crowder LB (2004) The impact of United States recreational fisheries on marine fish populations. Science 305:1958–1960

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thornicroft G, Semrau M, Alem A, et al (2011) Community Mental Health. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Hertl M (2011) Autoimmune Diseases of the Skin: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, Management, 3rd ed. Springer, Vienna

A chapter in an edited book

Moreno-Díaz R, Moreno-Díaz A, de Blasio G (2009) Local Space-Time Systems Simulation of Linear and Non-linear Retinal Processes. In: Moreno-Díaz R, Pichler F, Quesada-Arencibia A (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST 2009: 12th International Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, February 15-20, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 25–32

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

Hale T (2015) Watch This Beetle Create Its Own Scuba Diving Equipment. In: IFLScience. 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 (1994) Asian Aeronautics: Technology Acquisition Drives Industry Development. 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

Johnson AS (2017) Fatigue Behavior and Microstructure of Direct Laser Deposited Inconel 718 Alloy. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State 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

Currie A, Hay G (2010) Protracted Wait for G.M. Payback. 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