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

Amin M (2013) Energy: The smart-grid solution. Nature 499:145–147

A journal article with 2 authors

Kodama R, Fast-Ignitor Consortium (2002) Fast heating scalable to laser fusion ignition. Nature 418:933–934

A journal article with 3 authors

Togashi T, Sasaki H, Yoshimura J (2014) A geometrical approach explains Lake Ball (Marimo) formations in the green alga, Aegagropila linnaei. Sci Rep 4:3761

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Koop T, Luo B, Tsias A, Peter T (2000) Water activity as the determinant for homogeneous ice nucleation in aqueous solutions. Nature 406:611–614

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ferrari ML, Damo UM, Turan A, Sánchez D (2017) Hybrid Systems Based on Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Mobus GE (2015) Principles of Systems Science. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Kaszniak AW (2011) Meditation, Mindfulness, Cognition, and Emotion: Implications for Community-Based Older Adult Programs. In: Hartman-Stein PE, LaRue A (eds) Enhancing Cognitive Fitness in Adults: A Guide to the Use and Development of Community-Based Programs. Springer, New York, NY, pp 85–104

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) Birds That Wake Up Earlier Have More Offspring. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-birds-watch-out/. 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 (1969) Comments on NASA Payment for Apollo 11 Recognition Banquet. 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

Crawford JD (2017) Teacher Job Satisfaction as Related to Student Performance on State-Mandated Testing. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Vecsey G (2011) A Thick Résumé for a Tough Job. New York Times D6

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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