How to format your references using the Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Muindi F (2014) Tell the negative committee to shut up. Science 345:350

A journal article with 2 authors

Richards TA, Cavalier-Smith T (2005) Myosin domain evolution and the primary divergence of eukaryotes. Nature 436:1113–1118

A journal article with 3 authors

Philips JA, Rubin EJ, Perrimon N (2005) Drosophila RNAi screen reveals CD36 family member required for mycobacterial infection. Science 309:1251–1253

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Piva PG, DiLabio GA, Pitters JL, et al (2005) Field regulation of single-molecule conductivity by a charged surface atom. Nature 435:658–661

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

de Almeida JPM, Maunder EAW (2017) Equilibrium Finite Element Formulations. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Ma Z (2006) Soft Computing in Ontologies and Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Reid C, Collins J, Singh M (2014) The Capital Reconversion of Global Teachers in Australia. In: Collins J, Singh M (eds) Global Teachers, Australian Perspectives: Goodbye Mr Chips, Hello Ms Banerjee. Springer, Singapore, pp 85–103

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 Dynamic Behavior of Materials.

Blog post

Andrews R (2015) Study Reveals Why We All Love People That Are Bad For Us. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/pathological-deviant-people-have-greater-sex-appeal/. 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

Government Accountability Office (1988) Financial Markets: Status of Computer Improvements at the New York Stock Exchange. 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

To KS (2017) Loss of Promoter Methylation is Correlated with mRNA Induction of Senescence Upregulated Gene UGT78D1. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Harris EA (2017) Accused of Sexual Abuse, Ousted And On to the Next Teaching Job. New York Times A1

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 Dynamic Behavior of Materials
Abbreviation	J. Dyn. Behav. Mater.
ISSN (print)	2199-7446
ISSN (online)	2199-7454
Scope