How to format your references using the International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Dutton, P.L.: Retrospective. Britton Chance (1913-2010). Science. 330, 1641 (2010)

A journal article with 2 authors

Nishioka, K., Reinberg, D.: Transcription. Switching partners in a regulatory tango. Science. 294, 2497–2498 (2001)

A journal article with 3 authors

Angelakis, D.G., Das, P., Noh, C.: Probing the topological properties of the Jackiw-Rebbi model with light. Sci. Rep. 4, 6110 (2014)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gubbels, S.P., Woessner, D.W., Mitchell, J.C., Ricci, A.J., Brigande, J.V.: Functional auditory hair cells produced in the mammalian cochlea by in utero gene transfer. Nature. 455, 537–541 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Venkateshan, S.P.: Mechanical Measurements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Čápek, V.: Challenges to the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Theory and Experiment. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

A chapter in an edited book

Sergej, T., Mantiuk, R.: Perceptual Evaluation of Demosaicing Artefacts. In: Campilho, A. and Kamel, M. (eds.) Image Analysis and Recognition: 11th International Conference, ICIAR 2014, Vilamoura, Portugal, October 22-24, 2014, Proceedings, Part I. pp. 38–45. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2014)

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 Mechanics and Materials in Design.

Blog post

Fang, J.: BPA Alternative May Not Be Any Safer Than BPA for Embryonic Brain

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: Protest of Army Contract Award for Satellite Station. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1973)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Shrank, S.M.: ShareOne: An iOS resource application for caseworkers: A grant proposal, (2017)

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.: ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ To Resume Taping, (2017)

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dutton 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Dutton 2010; Nishioka and Reinberg 2001).

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

Two authors: (Nishioka and Reinberg 2001)
Three or more authors: (Gubbels et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design
Abbreviation	Int. J. Mech. Mater. Des.
ISSN (print)	1569-1713
ISSN (online)	1573-8841
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science