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

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

Dance, I., 2013. A molecular pathway for the egress of ammonia produced by nitrogenase. Sci. Rep. 3, 3237.

A journal article with 2 authors

Amico, G., Aizen, M.A., 2000. Mistletoe seed dispersal by a marsupial. Nature 408, 929–930.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishimune, H., Sanes, J.R., Carlson, S.S., 2004. A synaptic laminin-calcium channel interaction organizes active zones in motor nerve terminals. Nature 432, 580–587.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dalui, M., Kundu, M., Trivikram, T.M., Rajeev, R., Ray, K., Krishnamurthy, M., 2014. Bacterial cells enhance laser driven ion acceleration. Sci. Rep. 4, 6002.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fan, J., 2010. Multiscale Analysis of Deformation and Failure of Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Chen, Y. (Ed.), 2010. Energy Science & Technology in China: A Roadmap to 2050. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Krum, S., Hevelingen, W.V., Kero, B., Turnbull, J., McCune, J., 2013. Externalizing Puppet Configuration, in: Hevelingen, W.V., Kero, B., Turnbull, J., McCune, J. (Eds.), Pro Puppet: The Definitive Guide to Selling Abroad Profitably. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 141–153.

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 Plasticity.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Asteroid Day Officially Recognized As June 30 By United Nations [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-day-officially-recognized-as-june-30-by-united-nations/ (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, 1977. Space Transportation System: Past, Present, Future (No. PSAD-77-113). 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

Johnson, C., 2012. Directed blogging with community college ESL students: Its effects on awareness of language acquisition processes (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Grynbaum, M.M., 2017. Familiar Cycle of Partisan Combat Churns Again, and Trump Is Again at the Center. New York Times A6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dance, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Amico and Aizen, 2000; Dance, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Amico and Aizen, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Dalui et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Plasticity
Abbreviation	Int. J. Plast.
ISSN (print)	0749-6419
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science