How to format your references using the Journal of Elasticity citation style

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

Blaser, M.: Antibiotic overuse: Stop the killing of beneficial bacteria. Nature. 476, 393–394 (2011)

A journal article with 2 authors

Paczolt, K.A., Jones, A.G.: Post-copulatory sexual selection and sexual conflict in the evolution of male pregnancy. Nature. 464, 401–404 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, J., Balabin, I.A., Beratan, D.N.: The nature of aqueous tunneling pathways between electron-transfer proteins. Science. 310, 1311–1313 (2005)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Oganov, A.R., Martonák, R., Laio, A., Raiteri, P., Parrinello, M.: Anisotropy of Earth’s D’’ layer and stacking faults in the MgSiO3 post-perovskite phase. Nature. 438, 1142–1144 (2005)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fernandez-Maloigne, C., Robert-Inacio, F., Macaire, L.: Digital Color. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA (2012)

An edited book

Rotte, A.: Immunotherapy of Melanoma. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Ogura, K., Hiraga, H., Ishii, T., Ozaki, T., Nishida, Y., Morioka, H., Hiruma, T., Ueda, T., Araki, N., Naka, N., Kawano, H., Kawai, A.: Outcome of Treatment for Osteosarcoma of the Extremities Over the Last 20 Years: Report from 11 Referral Centers in Japan. In: Ueda, T. and Kawai, A. (eds.) Osteosarcoma. pp. 45–57. Springer Japan, Tokyo (2016)

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 Elasticity.

Blog post

Fang, J.: Climate Pressures Favor Seal Moms With Higher Genetic Variation, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/climate-pressures-favor-seal-moms-higher-genetic-variation/

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: Aviation Safety: Information on FAA’s Data on Operational Errors At Air Traffic Control Towers. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2003)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Guzman, F.: Terra Forming with You and Me, (2013)

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

Greenhouse, L.: Supreme Court Ruling Limits State Control of Big Banks, (2007)

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 Elasticity
Abbreviation	J. Elast.
ISSN (print)	0374-3535
ISSN (online)	1573-2681
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science