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

Barinaga M (2000) SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: Satisfaction Sans Status. Science 289:2025

A journal article with 2 authors

Morel FMM, Price NM (2003) The biogeochemical cycles of trace metals in the oceans. Science 300:944–947

A journal article with 3 authors

Lopinski GP, Wayner DD, Wolkow RA (2000) Self-directed growth of molecular nanostructures on silicon. Nature 406:48–51

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gillani N, Yasseri T, Eynon R, Hjorth I (2014) Structural limitations of learning in a crowd: communication vulnerability and information diffusion in MOOCs. Sci Rep 4:6447

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Melville A (2010) Political Atlas of the Modern World. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Oberlack M, Peinke J, Talamelli A, et al (2012) Progress in Turbulence and Wind Energy IV: Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rangnekar A, LaBean TH (2014) Tile-Based DNA Nano-assemblies. In: Kjems J, Ferapontova E, Gothelf KV (eds) Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 71–92

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

Andrews R (2017) Two-Thirds Of Cancer Mutations Down To Random Bad Luck, Claims Study. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/twothirds-cancer-mutations-random-bad-luck/. 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 (1975) Management of the Community Action Against Addiction Program in Cleveland, Ohio. 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

Moreau EL (2014) Sailing on a Sea of Hope: Exploring the Impact of Federal Consolidation on Individual Identification and Organizational Identity. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Yeh J (2017) A Mother. A Death. A Memoir. It’s Tricky. New York Times C1

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

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