How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Mechanics citation style

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

[1]

Powell, K., 2012, “Molecular Oncology: The Positive in the Negative,” Nature, 485(7400), pp. S52-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ahmed, S., and Hodgkin, J., 2000, “MRT-2 Checkpoint Protein Is Required for Germline Immortality and Telomere Replication in C. Elegans,” Nature, 403(6766), pp. 159–164.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Koskinen, T. T., Aylward, A. D., and Miller, S., 2007, “A Stability Limit for the Atmospheres of Giant Extrasolar Planets,” Nature, 450(7171), pp. 845–848.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Xu, W., Shang, Y., Zhu, P., Zhai, Z., He, J., Huang, K., and Luo, Y., 2013, “Randomly Broken Fragment PCR with 5’ End-Directed Adaptor for Genome Walking,” Sci. Rep., 3, p. 3465.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lindahl, D., 2007, Emerging Real Estate Markets, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

[1]

Tuberosa, R., Graner, A., and Frison, E., eds., 2014, Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources: Volume 1. Managing, Sequencing and Mining Genetic Resources, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

King, R., Mehrmann, V., and Nitsche, W., 2010, “Active Flow Control—A Mathematical Challenge,” Production Factor Mathematics, M. Grötschel, K. Lucas, and V. Mehrmann, eds., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 73–80.

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 Journal of Applied Mechanics.

Blog post

[1]

Hale, T., 2016, “Hubble Takes A Celebratory Snap Of Mars As It Nears Its Closest Approach,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-take-celebratory-snap-mars-it-nears-its-closest-approach/. [Accessed: 30-Oct-2018].

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1998, GSA: Federal Communications Commission Planned Move to the Portals II Building, GGD-98-65R, 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

[1]

Diddi, V., 2017, “Digitally Controlled Microwave Power Amplifier Design Techniques for Wireless Communications,” Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego.

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

[1]

Anderson, J., 2017, “Pinning Award Hopes on a Powerful Song,” New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Mechanics
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Mech.
ISSN (print)	0021-8936
ISSN (online)	1528-9036
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials Condensed Matter Physics