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

Norman C (2012) 2011 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Science 335:525–535

A journal article with 2 authors

Penninger JM, Woodgett J (2001) Stem cells. PTEN--coupling tumor suppression to stem cells? Science 294:2116–2118

A journal article with 3 authors

Davis MC, Dahn RD, Shubin NH (2007) An autopodial-like pattern of Hox expression in the fins of a basal actinopterygian fish. Nature 447:473–476

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kaka S, Pufall MR, Rippard WH, et al (2005) Mutual phase-locking of microwave spin torque nano-oscillators. Nature 437:389–392

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Altman MC (2011) Kant and Applied Ethics. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Scarinzi A (2015) Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Shah SK, Nishi SPE, Sharma G (2012) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Older Patients. In: Pisani M (ed) Aging and Lung Disease: A Clinical Guide. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp 63–87

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

Luntz S (2015) Vitamin D May Protect Against Cognitive Decline. In: IFLScience. 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 (1991) Within-School Discrimination: Inadequate Title VI Enforcement by Education’s Office for Civil Rights. 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

McFarland-Mancini M (2006) Prolactin Production by Human Breast Adipose Tissue and Adipocytes. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati

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

Wallace N (2016) The G.O.P. Waits for Trump to Grow Up. New York Times A27

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