How to format your references using the Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics. 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

Simmons, A.: Archaeology. Mediterranean island voyages. Science. 338, 895–897 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Sigman, D.M., Boyle, E.A.: Glacial/interglacial variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Nature. 407, 859–869 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Carlson, M.E., Hsu, M., Conboy, I.M.: Imbalance between pSmad3 and Notch induces CDK inhibitors in old muscle stem cells. Nature. 454, 528–532 (2008)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matloubian, M., Lo, C.G., Cinamon, G., Lesneski, M.J., Xu, Y., Brinkmann, V., Allende, M.L., Proia, R.L., Cyster, J.G.: Lymphocyte egress from thymus and peripheral lymphoid organs is dependent on S1P receptor 1. Nature. 427, 355–360 (2004)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuzmeski, M.: The Connectors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2009)

An edited book

Collmann, J., Matei, S.A. eds: Ethical Reasoning in Big Data: An Exploratory Analysis. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Leibrandt, K., Lorenz, T., Nierhoff, T., Hirche, S.: Modelling Human Gameplay at Pool and Countering It with an Anthropomorphic Robot. In: Herrmann, G., Pearson, M.J., Lenz, A., Bremner, P., Spiers, A., and Leonards, U. (eds.) Social Robotics: 5th International Conference, ICSR 2013, Bristol, UK, October 27-29, 2013, Proceedings. pp. 30–39. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2013)

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 Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J.: SpaceX Has Delayed Its First Manned Launch To 2018, https://www.iflscience.com/space/spacex-delays-first-manned-launch-to-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: Public Education: Title I Services Provided to Students With Limited English Proficiency. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1999)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Holmes, K.: Ethical practice online: An exploration of provider liability risk among practitioners in the emerging field of online therapy, (2008)

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

Loomis, S.H.: Making the Restaurant Part of the Family, (2014)

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	Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
Abbreviation	Contin. Mech. Thermodyn.
ISSN (print)	0935-1175
ISSN (online)	1432-0959
Scope	Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science General Physics and Astronomy