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

Fertig, H.A., 2003. Physics. Spinning holes in semiconductors. Science 301, 1335–1336.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang, X., Zhao, M., 2014. Strain-induced phase transition and electron spin-polarization in graphene spirals. Sci. Rep. 4, 5699.

A journal article with 3 authors

Danchin, E., Wajnberg, E., Wagner, R.H., 2014. Avoiding pitfalls in estimating heritability with the common options approach. Sci. Rep. 4, 3974.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rocks, O., Peyker, A., Kahms, M., Verveer, P.J., Koerner, C., Lumbierres, M., Kuhlmann, J., Waldmann, H., Wittinghofer, A., Bastiaens, P.I.H., 2005. An acylation cycle regulates localization and activity of palmitoylated Ras isoforms. Science 307, 1746–1752.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heiberger, R.M., 2015. Computation for the Analysis of Designed Experiments. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rebelo, F., Soares, M. (Eds.), 2016. Advances in Ergonomics in Design: Proceedings of the AHFE 2016 International Conference on Ergonomics in Design, July 27-31, 2016, Walt Disney World®, Florida, USA, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bernstein, D.J., Lange, T., Peters, C., Schwabe, P., 2011. Faster 2-Regular Information-Set Decoding, in: Chee, Y.M., Guo, Z., Ling, S., Shao, F., Tang, Y., Wang, H., Xing, C. (Eds.), Coding and Cryptology: Third International Workshop, IWCC 2011, Qingdao, China, May 30-June 3, 2011. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 81–98.

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

Andrews, R., 2016. CryoSat Reveals Dramatic Ice Loss From Greenland [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/cryosat-reveals-dramatic-ice-loss-from-greenland/ (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, 1992. Contract Pricing: A Low Percentage of Contractors Are Responsible for Most Reported Defective Pricing (No. NSIAD-93-1). 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

LaVertu, D.J., 2017. An Exploratory Approach to In-Trinity® for Fall Prevention (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

(nyt), S.K., 2003. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Tracking Foreigners. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fertig, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Fertig, 2003; Zhang and Zhao, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Zhao, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rocks et al., 2005)

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