How to format your references using the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Humphries, C., 2013, “Adoptive Cell Therapy: Honing That Killer Instinct,” Nature, 504(7480), pp. S13-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kwon, H.-B., and Sabatini, B. L., 2011, “Glutamate Induces de Novo Growth of Functional Spines in Developing Cortex,” Nature, 474(7349), pp. 100–104.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wagemaker, M., Kentgens, A. P. M., and Mulder, F. M., 2002, “Equilibrium Lithium Transport between Nanocrystalline Phases in Intercalated TiO(2) Anatase,” Nature, 418(6896), pp. 397–399.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Holt, N. E., Zigmantas, D., Valkunas, L., Li, X.-P., Niyogi, K. K., and Fleming, G. R., 2005, “Carotenoid Cation Formation and the Regulation of Photosynthetic Light Harvesting,” Science, 307(5708), pp. 433–436.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bojowald, M., 2012, The Universe: A View from Classical and Quantum Gravity, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

[1]

Dobrev, V., ed., 2014, Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics: Varna, Bulgaria, June 2013, Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Albertos, P., Sanz, L., Mateos, I., Sánchez-Vicente, I., Lechón, T., Fernández-Espinosa, G., Rodríguez, D., and Lorenzo, O., 2016, “Gasotransmission of Nitric Oxide (NO) at Early Plant Developmental Stages,” Gasotransmitters in Plants: The Rise of a New Paradigm in Cell Signaling, L. Lamattina, and C. García-Mata, eds., Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 95–116.

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 Engineering Materials and Technology.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti, A., 2016, “This Water-Powered CubeSat Might Be Sent To The Moon,” IFLScience. [Online]. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-waterpowered-cubesat-might-be-sent-to-the-moon/. [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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1980, Review of the District of Columbia’s Automatic Data Processing Operations, GGD-80-103, 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

[1]

Valdez, K., 2015, “Taking a Closer Look at the Mental Health Services Act of 2004: A Policy Analysis,” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

[1]

David Kelly: David Kelly is an editor of The Book Review, 1987, “PUGILISTS’ PROGRESS,” New York Times, p. 78.

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 Engineering Materials and Technology
Abbreviation	J. Eng. Mater. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0094-4289
ISSN (online)	1528-8889
Scope	Mechanical Engineering Mechanics of Materials General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics