How to format your references using the Experimental Techniques citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Experimental Techniques. 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

Shear WA (2000) Jane Gray (1929-2000). Nature 405:34

A journal article with 2 authors

Dorfman KE, Mukamel S (2014) Indistinguishability and correlations of photons generated by quantum emitters undergoing spectral diffusion. Sci Rep 4:3996

A journal article with 3 authors

Naylor RL, Williams SL, Strong DR (2001) Ecology. Aquaculture--a gateway for exotic species. Science 294:1655–1656

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Goley ED, Ohkawa T, Mancuso J, et al (2006) Dynamic nuclear actin assembly by Arp2/3 complex and a baculovirus WASP-like protein. Science 314:464–467

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Teodorescu P, Stănescu N-D, Pandrea N (2013) Numerical Analysis with Applications in Mechanics and Engineering. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Collet P, Courbage M, Métens S, et al (2005) Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on International Summer School on Chaotic Dynamics and Transport in Classical and Quantum Systems Cargèse, Corsica 18–30 August 2003. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Möser M, Barros JL (2009) Aislamiento elástico. In: Barros JL (ed) Ingeniería Acústica: Teoría y Aplicaciones. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 141–166

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 Experimental Techniques.

Blog post

Fang J (2014) Simple tree branch filter makes dirty water drinkable. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/simple-tree-branch-filter-makes-dirty-water-drinkable/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1996) Regulatory Burden. 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

Peters AS (2017) Bread and Washoku: Unveiling Japanese Identity Through the Necessity of Bread Baking. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Cooper M (2017) Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia, From Germany. New York Times C1

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	Experimental Techniques
Abbreviation	Exp. Tech.
ISSN (print)	0732-8818
ISSN (online)	1747-1567
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials