How to format your references using the European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids. 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

Romanowicz, B., 2008. Using seismic waves to image Earth’s internal structure. Nature 451, 266–268.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bodirsky, B.L., Popp, A., 2015. Sustainability: Australia at the crossroads. Nature 527, 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Thorpe, S.K.S., Holder, R.L., Crompton, R.H., 2007. Origin of human bipedalism as an adaptation for locomotion on flexible branches. Science 316, 1328–1331.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ikegaya, Y., Aaron, G., Cossart, R., Aronov, D., Lampl, I., Ferster, D., Yuste, R., 2004. Synfire chains and cortical songs: temporal modules of cortical activity. Science 304, 559–564.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stenholm, S., Suominen, K.-A., 2005. Quantum Approach to Informatics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Epstein, G.S., 2007. Endogenous Public Policy and Contests. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Kireyev, D., Hung, J., 2016. Valvular Pathology, in: Kireyev, D., Hung, J. (Eds.), Cardiac Imaging in Clinical Practice, In Clinical Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 51–72.

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 European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2015. Russia’s Largest Private Science Funder Shuts Down After Kremlin Labels It A “Foreign Agent” [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/russias-largest-private-science-foundation-shuts-after-kremlin-labels-it-foreign-agent/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Financial Literacy: Overview of Federal Activities, Programs, and Challenges (No. GAO-14-556T). 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

Ryan, J.I., 2017. Analysis of the role of the Jackson Prairie in prehistoric/protohistoric settlement patterns using survey data from the Bienville National Forest (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Kelly, M., 1993. Clinton Talks to Children, But Addresses Everybody. New York Times 124.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Romanowicz, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Bodirsky and Popp, 2015; Romanowicz, 2008).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Bodirsky and Popp, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Ikegaya et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	European Journal of Mechanics / A Solids
Abbreviation	Eur. J. Mech. A Solids
ISSN (print)	0997-7538
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science General Physics and Astronomy