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

Guberman, S.L.: Chemistry. Breaking up is hard to do without an electron. Science. 294, 1474–1475 (2001)

A journal article with 2 authors

Hale, M.S., Rivkin, R.B.: Comment on “Nature of phosphorus limitation in the ultraoligotrophic eastern Mediterranean.” Science. 312, 1748; author reply 1748 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolfe, C.J., Okubo, P.G., Shearer, P.M.: Mantle fault zone beneath Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii. Science. 300, 478–480 (2003)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

McNamara, C., Zinkernagel, A.S., Macheboeuf, P., Cunningham, M.W., Nizet, V., Ghosh, P.: Coiled-coil irregularities and instabilities in group A Streptococcus M1 are required for virulence. Science. 319, 1405–1408 (2008)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Perini, K., Sabbion, P.: Urban Sustainability and River Restoration. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK (2017)

An edited book

Bas, P.: Watermarking Security. Springer, Singapore (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Chalopin, J., Godard, E., Métivier, Y.: Local Terminations and Distributed Computability in Anonymous Networks. In: Taubenfeld, G. (ed.) Distributed Computing: 22nd International Symposium, DISC 2008, Arcachon, France, September 22-24, 2008. Proceedings. pp. 47–62. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2008)

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

Andrews, R.: Gene-Editing Therapy Saves Lives Of Two Baby Girls With Leukemia, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/geneediting-therapy-saves-lives-baby-girls-leukemia/

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: Federal Health Care: Increased Information System Sharing Could Improve Service, Reduce Costs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1993)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Frey, E.F.: Technology diffusion and environmental regulation: Evidence from electric power plants under the Clean Air Act, (2008)

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

Sisario, B.: How Did It Feel to Be on Their Own?, (2017)

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

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