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

Beutler B (2004) Inferences, questions and possibilities in Toll-like receptor signalling. Nature 430:257–263

A journal article with 2 authors

Walter RC, Merritts DJ (2008) Natural streams and the legacy of water-powered mills. Science 319:299–304

A journal article with 3 authors

Geary C, Rothemund PWK, Andersen ES (2014) RNA nanostructures. A single-stranded architecture for cotranscriptional folding of RNA nanostructures. Science 345:799–804

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lama D, Quah ST, Verma CS, et al (2013) Rational optimization of conformational effects induced by hydrocarbon staples in peptides and their binding interfaces. Sci Rep 3:3451

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coe JT (2000) Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Vaudenay S (2006) Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2006: 24th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, St. Petersburg, Russia, May 28 - June 1, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Klempe SH (2014) Catalysis, Functional Explanations and Functionalism in Psychology. In: Cabell KR, Valsiner J (eds) The Catalyzing Mind: Beyond Models of Causality. Springer, New York, NY, pp 71–92

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

Andrew E (2014) Axolotl feared extinct in the wild. 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 (2008) Aviation and the Environment: NextGen and Research and Development Are Keys to Reducing Emissions and Their Impact on Health and Climate. 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

Blanchard EJ (2010) Legato trombone: A survey of pedagogical resources. 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

Bartlett B (2016) It’s Not Too Late to Fix Fox News. New York Times A21

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

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