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

Hughes, V.: Public health: Where there’s smoke. Nature. 489, S18-20 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

Czyzewski, B.K., Wang, D.-N.: Identification and characterization of a bacterial hydrosulphide ion channel. Nature. 483, 494–497 (2012)

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhou, Z., Clarke, J.A., Zhang, F.: Archaeoraptor’s better half. Nature. 420, 285 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Teschner, D., Borsodi, J., Wootsch, A., Révay, Z., Hävecker, M., Knop-Gericke, A., Jackson, S.D., Schlögl, R.: The roles of subsurface carbon and hydrogen in palladium-catalyzed alkyne hydrogenation. Science. 320, 86–89 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rosier, J.A., Martens, M.A., Thomas, J.R.: Global New Drug Development. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2014)

An edited book

Crowston, K., Hammouda, I., Lundell, B., Robles, G., Gamalielsson, J., Lindman, J. eds: Open Source Systems: Integrating Communities: 12th IFIP WG 2.13 International Conference, OSS 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, May 30 - June 2, 2016, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Manchanda, S., Steemers, K.: Environmental Control and the Creation of Well-being. In: Rassia, S.T. and Pardalos, P.M. (eds.) Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture: Impacts on Health. pp. 69–81. Springer, New York, NY (2012)

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

Andrew, E.: United Airlines will use Animal Poop to Power its Jets, https://www.iflscience.com/environment/united-airlines-will-use-animal-poop-power-its-jets/

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 and the Environment: FAA’s and NASA’s Research and Development Plans for Noise Reduction Are Aligned but the Prospects of Achieving Noise Reduction Goals Are Uncertain. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tetley, J.: An investigation of self-authorship, hope, and meaning in life among second-year college students, (2009)

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

St. John Kelly, E.: F.Y.I, (1995)

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