How to format your references using the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 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]

S. Evans, PALEONTOLOGY. Four legs too many?, Science 349 (2015) 374–375.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Bhandoola, D. Artis, Immunology. Rebuilding the thymus, Science 336 (2012) 40–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Vannucchi, F. Remitti, G. Bettelli, Geological record of fluid flow and seismogenesis along an erosive subducting plate boundary, Nature 451 (2008) 699–703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Q. Li, C. Xue, J.-P. Liu, J.-F. Wu, S.-Q. Yang, C.-G. Shao, L.-D. Quan, W.-H. Tan, L.-C. Tu, Q. Liu, H. Xu, L.-X. Liu, Q.-L. Wang, Z.-K. Hu, Z.-B. Zhou, P.-S. Luo, S.-C. Wu, V. Milyukov, J. Luo, Measurements of the gravitational constant using two independent methods, Nature 560 (2018) 582–588.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Staudt, Experimentalphysik, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, 2001.

An edited book

[1]

S. Pöhlmann, G. Simmons, eds., Viral Entry into Host Cells, Springer, New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

J.H. Siddiqui, S. Khurshid, An Empirical Study of Structural Constraint Solving Techniques, in: K. Breitman, A. Cavalcanti (Eds.), Formal Methods and Software Engineering: 11th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods ICFEM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 9-12, 2009. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 88–106.

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 Non-Linear Mechanics.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Why so many domesticated mammals have floppy ears, IFLScience (2014).

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, Pipeline Safety Risk Assessment Program Could Help Evaluate Inspection Cycle, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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N. Lama, Optimized Veterinary Thermographic Image Classification using Support Vector Machines and Noise Mitigation, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 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

[1]

J. Koblin, For ‘American Idol,’ a Possible Comeback, New York Times (2017) C3.

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 Non-Linear Mechanics
Abbreviation	Int. J. Non Linear Mech.
ISSN (print)	0020-7462
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Applied Mathematics