How to format your references using the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. 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

[1]

Wunsch C. Moon, tides and climate. Nature 2000;405:743–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Johnson BC, Melosh HJ. Impact spherules as a record of an ancient heavy bombardment of Earth. Nature 2012;485:75–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Tao C, Cullen WG, Williams ED. Visualizing the electron scattering force in nanostructures. Science 2010;328:736–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wang XX, Tan ZH, Zeng M, Wang JN. Carbon nanocages: a new support material for Pt catalyst with remarkably high durability. Sci Rep 2014;4:4437.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Marvin S. Dictionary of Scientific Principles. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Mankekar G, editor. Implantable Hearing Devices other than Cochlear Implants. New Delhi: Springer India; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Danylenko A, Löwe W. Adaptation of Legacy Codes to Context-Aware Composition Using Aspect-Oriented Programming. In: Gschwind T, Paoli FD, Gruhn V, Book M, editors. Software Composition: 11th International Conference, SC 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 31 – June 1, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 68–85.

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 International Journal of Mechanical Sciences.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. There Are Rumors That Russia Are Developing A Space-Cruising Nuclear Bomber. IFLScience 2016.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Aviation Safety: Air Taxis--The Most Accident-Prone Airlines--Need Better Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chambers S. Telecommunications megamergers: Impact on employee morale and turnover intention. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2008.

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

[1]

Novick SM. Where Po’ Boys Will Be Po’ Boys. New York Times 2016:LI8.

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	International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
Abbreviation	Int. J. Mech. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0020-7403
Scope	Civil and Structural Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics

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