How to format your references using the Computational Particle Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Computational Particle 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

Doherty R (2007) Retrospective. Robert W. Cahn (1924-2007) and David Turnbull (1915-2007). Science 317:56–57

A journal article with 2 authors

Blackburn EH, Epel ES (2012) Telomeres and adversity: Too toxic to ignore. Nature 490:169–171

A journal article with 3 authors

Hunt N, McGrath D, Stergiou N (2014) The influence of auditory-motor coupling on fractal dynamics in human gait. Sci Rep 4:5879

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Que X, Hung M-Y, Yeang C, et al (2018) Publisher Correction: Oxidized phospholipids are proinflammatory and proatherogenic in hypercholesterolaemic mice. Nature 561:E43

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mamishev A, Williams S (2010) Technical Writing for Teams. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Wallace M, Anagnostopoulos IE, Mylonas P, Bielikova M (2010) Semantics in Adaptive and Personalized Services: Methods, Tools and Applications. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Anghel L, Rebaudengo M, Reorda MS, Violante M (2007) Multi-level Fault Effects Evaluation. In: Velazco R, Fouillat P, Reis R (eds) Radiation Effects on Embedded Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 69–88

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 Particle Mechanics.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Mars One Mission Selects Final 100 Candidates to Colonize Mars. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/mars-one-mission-whittles-potential-candidates-down-final-100/. 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 (1990) Customs Automation: Weakness in Revenue Collection at John F. Kennedy International Airport. 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

Oppenheim JN (2017) Examination of Oncology Summer Camp Attendance, Psychosocial Adjustment, and Perceived Social Support Among Pediatric Cancer Patients and Siblings. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

Stewart JB (2017) In Ditching Netflix, Disney Grabs New Key to Kingdom. New York Times B1

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 Particle Mechanics
Abbreviation	Comput. Part. Mech.
ISSN (print)	2196-4378
ISSN (online)	2196-4386
Scope