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

Sincell, M., 2000. NanoManipulator Lets Chemists Go Mano a Mano With Molecules. Science 290, 1530.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maraia, R.J., Rijal, K., 2015. Structural biology: A transcriptional specialist resolved. Nature 528, 204–205.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chen, W., Zhang, S., Long, X., 2013. Polarisation control through an optical feedback technique and its application in precise measurements. Sci. Rep. 3, 1992.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Whitney, D., Goltz, H.C., Thomas, C.G., Gati, J.S., Menon, R.S., Goodale, M.A., 2003. Flexible retinotopy: motion-dependent position coding in the visual cortex. Science 302, 878–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Borchard-Tuch, C., Groß, M., 2005. Was Biotronik alles kann. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Madria, S., Hara, T. (Eds.), 2015. Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery: 17th International Conference, DaWaK 2015, Valencia, Spain, September 1-4, 2015, Proceedings, 1st ed. 2015. ed, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Gkirtzou, K., Deux, J.-F., Bassez, G., Sotiras, A., Rahmouni, A., Varacca, T., Paragios, N., Blaschko, M.B., 2013. Sparse Classification with MRI Based Markers for Neuromuscular Disease Categorization, in: Wu, G., Zhang, D., Shen, D., Yan, P., Suzuki, K., Wang, F. (Eds.), Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: 4th International Workshop, MLMI 2013, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2013, Nagoya, Japan, September 22, 2013. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 33–40.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Thousands of Red Crabs Invade Southern California Shores [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/thousands-red-crabs-invade-southern-california-shores/ (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, 2007. Information Technology: VA and DOD Are Making Progress in Sharing Medical Information, but Remain Far from Having Comprehensive Electronic Medical Records (No. GAO-07-1108T). 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

Bracht, K.D., 2010. Causes of nonattendance and its effect on student achievement at the high school level (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Williams, J., 2017. A Life in Art. New York Times BR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sincell, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Maraia and Rijal, 2015; Sincell, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Maraia and Rijal, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Whitney et al., 2003)

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