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

Victor P (2010) Questioning economic growth. Nature 468:370–371

A journal article with 2 authors

Ren W, Cheng H-M (2013) Materials science: when two is better than one. Nature 497:448–449

A journal article with 3 authors

Bollasina MA, Ming Y, Ramaswamy V (2011) Anthropogenic aerosols and the weakening of the South Asian summer monsoon. Science 334:502–505

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Branderhorst MPA, Londero P, Wasylczyk P, et al (2008) Coherent control of decoherence. Science 320:638–643

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

You H, Jianjuan X, Xin G (2016) Radar Data Processing with Applications. John Wiley &;#38; Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore

An edited book

Silkenat JR, Hickey JE Jr, Barenboim PD (2014) The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat). Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Kovács P (2010) Characterization of the Runoff Regime and Its Stability in the Danube Catchment. In: Brilly M (ed) Hydrological Processes of the Danube River Basin: Perspectives from the Danubian Countries. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 143–173

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

Carpineti A (2016) We Now Have All The New Horizons Data From Pluto. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-now-have-all-the-new-horizons-data-from-pluto/. 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 (1996) Domestic Aviation: Changes in Airfares, Service, and Safety Since Airline Deregulation. 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

Swan C (2017) Arts participation and career preparedness: A pragmatic approach to assessing arts benefits. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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 (2006) Guardian Angels Welcome in Greenport. New York Times 14LI5

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