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

Walsh, C.A., 2013. Peter Huttenlocher (1931-2013). Nature 502, 172.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kriaucionis, S., Heintz, N., 2009. The nuclear DNA base 5-hydroxymethylcytosine is present in Purkinje neurons and the brain. Science 324, 929–930.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mersch, D.P., Crespi, A., Keller, L., 2013. Tracking individuals shows spatial fidelity is a key regulator of ant social organization. Science 340, 1090–1093.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Månsson, M., Kalies, I., Bergström, G., Schmidt, C., Legnehed, A., Hultén, L.M., Amrot-Fors, L., Gustafsson, D., Knecht, W., 2014. Lp(a) is not associated with diabetes but affects fibrinolysis and clot structure ex vivo. Sci. Rep. 4, 5318.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rouse, W.B., 2016. Universities as Complex Enterprises. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Sencha, A.N., 2013. Breast Ultrasound. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dai, F., Xu, Y., 2013. Weighted Polynomial Inequalities, in: Xu, Y. (Ed.), Approximation Theory and Harmonic Analysis on Spheres and Balls, Springer Monographs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 105–126.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Did Planet Nine Give The Solar System Its Tilt? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/did-planet-nine-give-the-solar-system-its-tilt/ (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, 1999. Land Management Systems: Major Software Development Does Not Meet BLM’s Business Needs (No. T-AIMD-99-102). 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

Denny, H.M., 2012. Impact of Occupational Health Interventions in Indonesia (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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., 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Headscarves Banned From ID Photos. New York Times A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walsh, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Kriaucionis and Heintz, 2009; Walsh, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kriaucionis and Heintz, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Månsson 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

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