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

Goodson, K.E., 2007. Materials science. Ordering up the minimum thermal conductivity of solids. Science 315, 342–343.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pérez-Gussinyé, M., Watts, A.B., 2005. The long-term strength of Europe and its implications for plate-forming processes. Nature 436, 381–384.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tuomisto, H., Ruokolainen, K., Yli-Halla, M., 2003. Dispersal, environment, and floristic variation of western Amazonian forests. Science 299, 241–244.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Podobnik, B., Baaquie, B.E., Bishop, S., Njavro, D., Li, B., 2013. Growth versus government management improvement during economic downturn. Sci. Rep. 3, 1612.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiMarzio, J.F., 2016. Beginning Android® Programming with Android Studio. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.

An edited book

Joye, M., Tunstall, M. (Eds.), 2012. Fault Analysis in Cryptography, Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Moreira, O., Corporaal, H., 2014. Temporal Analysis, in: Corporaal, H. (Ed.), Scheduling Real-Time Streaming Applications onto an Embedded Multiprocessor, Embedded Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 53–75.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. What Would Happen If You Touched A Black Hole? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/physics/what-would-happen-if-you-touched-black-hole/ (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, 1976. Performance Management in Higher Education (No. 094664). 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

Wilkerson, M.R., 2011. The Relationship Between Caring School Community Program Implementation and Elementary Student Achievement (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Leland, T. by J., 2016. Wildlife in Captivity. New York Times MB8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodson, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Goodson, 2007; Pérez-Gussinyé and Watts, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Pérez-Gussinyé and Watts, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Podobnik et al., 2013)

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