How to format your references using the International Journal of Solids and Structures citation style

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

Grosjean, M., 2001. Mid-Holocene climate in the south-central Andes: humid or dry? Science 292, 2391.

A journal article with 2 authors

Folkman, J., Kalluri, R., 2004. Cancer without disease. Nature 427, 787.

A journal article with 3 authors

Angelakis, D.G., Das, P., Noh, C., 2014. Probing the topological properties of the Jackiw-Rebbi model with light. Sci. Rep. 4, 6110.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Saito, F., Hirayasu, K., Satoh, T., Wang, C.W., Lusingu, J., Arimori, T., Shida, K., Palacpac, N.M.Q., Itagaki, S., Iwanaga, S., Takashima, E., Tsuboi, T., Kohyama, M., Suenaga, T., Colonna, M., Takagi, J., Lavstsen, T., Horii, T., Arase, H., 2018. Corrigendum: Immune evasion of Plasmodium falciparum by RIFIN via inhibitory receptors. Nature 554, 554.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Furmston, M., 2012. Powell-Smith and Furmston’s Building Contract Casebook. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Casasús, I., Rogošiç, J., Rosati, A., Štokoviç, I., Gabiña, D. (Eds.), 2012. Animal farming and environmental interactions in the Mediterranean region, EAAP – European Federation of Animal Sciences. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen.

A chapter in an edited book

Abdel-Aal, H.A., Mansori, M.E., 2011. Reptilian Skin as a Biomimetic Analogue for the Design of Deterministic Tribosurfaces, in: Gruber, P., Bruckner, D., Hellmich, C., Schmiedmayer, H.-B., Stachelberger, H., Gebeshuber, I.C. (Eds.), Biomimetics -- Materials, Structures and Processes: Examples, Ideas and Case Studies, Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 51–79.

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 Solids and Structures.

Blog post

Evans, K., 2017. Would You Drink Virtual Lemonade? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/would-you-drink-virtual-lemonade/ (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, 2002. Telecommunications: Issues in Providing Cable and Satellite Television Services (No. GAO-03-130). 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

Kehoe, R.M., 2009. Parental long-term care choices from the perspectives of their sandwich-generation adult children (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Board Renewing Searches By Trained Dogs at School. New York Times 14LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Grosjean, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Folkman and Kalluri, 2004; Grosjean, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Folkman and Kalluri, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Saito et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Solids and Structures
Abbreviation	Int. J. Solids Struct.
ISSN (print)	0020-7683
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Applied Mathematics Modelling and Simulation Condensed Matter Physics

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