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

Bourzac, K., 2015. Collaborations: Mining the motherlodes. Nature 527, S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pereira, G., Schiebel, E., 2003. Separase regulates INCENP-Aurora B anaphase spindle function through Cdc14. Science 302, 2120–2124.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshimura, K., Onda, Y., Fukushima, T., 2014. Sediment particle size and initial radiocesium accumulation in ponds following the Fukushima DNPP accident. Sci. Rep. 4, 4514.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lenggenhager, B., Tadi, T., Metzinger, T., Blanke, O., 2007. Video ergo sum: manipulating bodily self-consciousness. Science 317, 1096–1099.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam, M.R., Speight, J.G., 2016. Peak Energy: Myth or Reality? John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cheng, R., Cui, B., Zhang, Z., Cai, R., Xu, J. (Eds.), 2015. Web Technologies and Applications: 17th Asia-Pacific Web Conference, APWeb 2015, Guangzhou, China, September 18-20, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Angluin, D., Aspnes, J., Eisenstat, D., 2007. A Simple Population Protocol for Fast Robust Approximate Majority, in: Pelc, A. (Ed.), Distributed Computing: 21st International Symposium, DISC 2007, Lemesos, Cyprus, September 24-26, 2007. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 20–32.

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

Evans, K., 2017. Bookworms Are Nicer, Kinder, And More Empathetic People, According To New Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1988. Educating People at Risk for AIDS (No. T-PEMD-88-8). 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

Allison, C.L., 2015. An Investigation into the Experiences of Traditional Higher Education Instructors Transitioning into Effective Online Instructors (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Koblin, J., Grynbaum, M.M., 2016. Fox News, in Naming Leaders, Sends Signal: ‘Stay the Course.’ New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bourzac, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bourzac, 2015; Pereira and Schiebel, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Pereira and Schiebel, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Lenggenhager et al., 2007)

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

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