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

Richter, F.M.: Isotope fractionation in silicate melts by thermal diffusion. Nature. 472, E1; discussion E2-3 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Campbell, C.T., Peden, C.H.F.: Chemistry. Oxygen vacancies and catalysis on ceria surfaces. Science. 309, 713–714 (2005)

A journal article with 3 authors

Houlié, N., Dreger, D., Kim, A.: GPS source solution of the 2004 Parkfield earthquake. Sci. Rep. 4, 3646 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Manzo, C., van Zanten, T.S., Saha, S., Torreno-Pina, J.A., Mayor, S., Garcia-Parajo, M.F.: PSF decomposition of nanoscopy images via Bayesian analysis unravels distinct molecular organization of the cell membrane. Sci. Rep. 4, 4354 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Staebler, P.: Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2017)

An edited book

Rimondini, M. ed: Communication in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Springer, New York, NY (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Haim, A., Portnov, B.A.: Light at Night (LAN) Exposure and its Potential Effects on Daily Rhythms and Seasonal Disruptions. In: Portnov, B.A. (ed.) Light Pollution as a New Risk Factor for Human Breast and Prostate Cancers. pp. 35–40. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (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

Luntz, S.: Bizarre “Hybrid” Star Found, https://www.iflscience.com/space/bizarre-hybrid-star-found/

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: Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Telecommunications Readiness Critical, Yet Overall Status Largely Unknown. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1998)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lansdon, J.: A policy analysis of California’s three strikes law of 1994, (2010)

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

Barron, J.: Everyone Knows Peter, Paul and Mary. But What About Bob?, (2016)

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